PostgreSQL: CVE-2024-10977: PostgreSQL libpq retains an error message from man-in-the-middle

PostgreSQL: CVE-2024-10977: PostgreSQL libpq retains an error message from man-in-the-middle

Severity

4

CVSS

(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Published

11/15/2024

Created

11/16/2024

Added

11/15/2024

Modified

11/18/2024

Description

Client use of server error message in PostgreSQL allows a server not trusted under current SSL or GSS settings to furnish arbitrary non-NUL bytes to the libpq application.For example, a man-in-the-middle attacker could send a long error message that a human or screen-scraper user of psql mistakes for valid query results.This is probably not a concern for clients where the user interface unambiguously indicates the boundary between one error message and other text.Versions before PostgreSQL 17.1, 16.5, 15.9, 14.14, 13.17, and 12.21 are affected.

Solution(s)

• postgres-upgrade-13_17
• postgres-upgrade-14_14
• postgres-upgrade-15_9
• postgres-upgrade-16_5
• postgres-upgrade-17_1

References

• https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2024-10977
• CVE - 2024-10977