CVE-2019-10164 Memory corruption in PostgreSQL
High 7.5
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2019-10164 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2019-10164 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 26 Jun 2019. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-10164 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Fedoraproject Fedora. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-10164/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-10164/index.md)
An authenticated user can execute arbitrary code as the OS account via a stack-based buffer overflow when changing their password.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2019-10164?
CVE-2019-10164 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 26 Jun 2019. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
PostgreSQL versions 10.x before 10.9 and versions 11.x before 11.4 are vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. Any authenticated user can overflow a stack-based buffer by changing the user's own password to a purpose-crafted value. This often suffices to execute arbitrary code as the PostgreSQL operating system account.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-10164?
It affects 4 products.
Linux distribution packages (40)
libpq Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream | All versions | 0:12.1-3.el8 |
libpq-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream | All versions | 0:12.1-3.el8 |
libpq-debugsource Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream | All versions | 0:12.1-3.el8 |
libpq-devel Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream | All versions | 0:12.1-3.el8 |
libpq-devel-debuginfo Red Hat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream | All versions | 0:12.1-3.el8 |
postgresql10 SUSE:Enterprise Storage 4 | All versions | 10.9-1.12.2 |
postgresql10-libs SUSE:Enterprise Storage 4 | All versions | 10.9-1.12.1 |
postgresql10 SUSE:Enterprise Storage 5 | All versions | 10.9-1.12.2 |
postgresql10 SUSE:Enterprise Storage 5 | All versions | 10.9-1.12.2 |
postgresql10-libs SUSE:Enterprise Storage 5 | All versions | 10.9-1.12.1 |
postgresql10-libs SUSE:Enterprise Storage 5 | All versions | 10.9-1.12.1 |
postgresql10 SUSE:HPE Helion OpenStack 8 | All versions | 10.9-1.12.2 |
postgresql10-libs SUSE:HPE Helion OpenStack 8 | All versions | 10.9-1.12.1 |
postgresql10 SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 | All versions | 10.9-1.12.2 |
postgresql10-libs SUSE:Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP4 | All versions | 10.9-1.12.1 |
postgresql10 SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS | All versions | 10.9-1.12.2 |
postgresql10-libs SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1-LTSS | All versions | 10.9-1.12.1 |
postgresql10 SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL | All versions | 10.9-1.12.2 |
postgresql10-libs SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-BCL | All versions | 10.9-1.12.1 |
postgresql10 SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS | All versions | 10.9-1.12.2 |
postgresql10-libs SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2-LTSS | All versions | 10.9-1.12.1 |
postgresql10 SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL | All versions | 10.9-1.12.2 |
postgresql10-libs SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-BCL | All versions | 10.9-1.12.1 |
postgresql10 SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS | All versions | 10.9-1.12.2 |
postgresql10 SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS | All versions | 10.9-1.12.2 |
postgresql10-libs SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS | All versions | 10.9-1.12.1 |
postgresql10-libs SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3-LTSS | All versions | 10.9-1.12.1 |
postgresql10 SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 | All versions | 10.9-1.12.2 |
postgresql10-libs SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4 | All versions | 10.9-1.12.1 |
postgresql10 SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS | All versions | 10.9-1.12.2 |
postgresql10-libs SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS | All versions | 10.9-1.12.1 |
postgresql10 SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 | All versions | 10.9-1.12.2 |
postgresql10-libs SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP1 | All versions | 10.9-1.12.1 |
postgresql10 SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 | All versions | 10.9-1.12.2 |
postgresql10-libs SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 | All versions | 10.9-1.12.1 |
postgresql10 SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 | All versions | 10.9-1.12.2 |
postgresql10-libs SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3 | All versions | 10.9-1.12.1 |
postgresql10 SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 | All versions | 10.9-1.12.2 |
postgresql10-libs SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4 | All versions | 10.9-1.12.1 |
postgresql10-libs SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP4 | All versions | 10.9-1.12.1 |
Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Opensuse Leap, Postgresql Postgresql, Redhat Enterprise Linux.
How do I fix CVE-2019-10164?
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-2019-10164 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-10164 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Also known as ALPINE-CVE-2019-10164, CLEANSTART-2026-PY31391, GHSA-gr34-mv2c-wc84, MGASA-2019-0204, RHEA-2020:0343, SUSE-SU-2019:1783-1 and 4 more.