CVE-2017-11480
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-12-08 18:00
Modified
2024-08-05 18:12
Severity ?
Summary
Packetbeat versions prior to 5.6.4 are affected by a denial of service flaw in the PostgreSQL protocol handler. If Packetbeat is listening for PostgreSQL traffic and a user is able to send arbitrary network traffic to the monitored port, the attacker could prevent Packetbeat from properly logging other PostgreSQL traffic.
References
bressers@elastic.cohttps://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-5-6-4-security-update/106739Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-5-6-4-security-update/106739Vendor Advisory
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