Insufficiently Protected Credentials Affecting libpq-devel package, versions <0:13.5-1.el8
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL8-LIBPQDEVEL-4257241
- published 13 Nov 2021
- disclosed 11 Nov 2021
Introduced: 11 Nov 2021
CVE-2021-23222 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:8 libpq-devel to version 0:13.5-1.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2022:1891.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libpq-devel package and not the libpq-devel package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.
A man-in-the-middle attacker can inject false responses to the client's first few queries, despite the use of SSL certificate verification and encryption.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23222
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1891
- https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/160c0258802d10b0600d7671b1bbea55d8e17d45
- https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=d83cdfdca9d918bbbd6bb209139b94c954da7228
- https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2021-23222/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022675
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-04
- https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=d83cdfdca9d918bbbd6bb209139b94c954da7228
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