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PostgreSQL -- libpq retains an error message from man-in-the-middle

Affected packages
postgresql17-client < 17.1
postgresql16-client < 16.5
postgresql15-client < 15.9
postgresql14-client < 14.14
postgresql13-client < 13.17
postgresql12-client < 12.21

Details

VuXML ID a61ef21b-a29e-11ef-af48-6cc21735f730
Discovery 2024-11-14
Entry 2024-11-14

PostgreSQL project reports:

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.

References

CVE Name CVE-2024-10977
URL https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/CVE-2024-10977/