CVE-2015-5289 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-5289?

CVE-2015-5289 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 26 Oct 2015. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in json parsing in PostgreSQL before 9.3.x before 9.3.10 and 9.4.x before 9.4.5 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) via unspecified vectors, which are not properly handled in (1) json or (2) jsonb values.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-5289?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Postgresql Postgresql.

How do I fix CVE-2015-5289?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2015-5289 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-5289 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

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• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-mp2m-64j4-6889, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5289.