CVE-2016-0773

Publication date 11 February 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

PostgreSQL before 9.1.20, 9.2.x before 9.2.15, 9.3.x before 9.3.11, 9.4.x before 9.4.6, and 9.5.x before 9.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop or buffer overflow and crash) via a large Unicode character range in a regular expression.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
postgresql-8.4	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.10 yakkety	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	15.10 wily	Not in release
	15.04 vivid	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life
postgresql-9.1	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.10 yakkety	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	15.10 wily	Not in release
	15.04 vivid	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 9.1.20-0ubuntu0.14.04
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 9.1.20-0ubuntu0.12.04
postgresql-9.3	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.10 yakkety	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	15.10 wily	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 9.3.11-0ubuntu0.14.04
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release
postgresql-9.4	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.10 yakkety	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not in release
	15.10 wily	Fixed 9.4.6-0ubuntu0.15.10
	15.04 vivid	Ignored end of life
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release
postgresql-9.5	17.04 zesty	Not in release
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Not in release
	15.04 vivid	Not in release
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2894-1
PostgreSQL vulnerabilities
11 February 2016