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CVE-2015-3165

Published:May 28, 2015

Updated:May 17, 2026

Double free vulnerability in PostgreSQL before 9.0.20, 9.1.x before 9.1.16, 9.2.x before 9.2.11, 9.3.x before 9.3.7, and 9.4.x before 9.4.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by closing an SSL session at a time when the authentication timeout will expire during the session shutdown sequence.

Related Resources (18)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1195.html

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1587/

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00004.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3270

https://support.apple.com/HT205219

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release-9-3-7.html

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3165

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0-20.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3269

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-16.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74787

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-20

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/release-9-2-11.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2621-1

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-3165

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-2.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1194.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1196.html

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CVSS v3

Base Score:

3.7

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality

NONE

Integrity

NONE

Availability

LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:

4.3

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

EPSS

Base Score:

8.33