Denial of Service Vulnerability in Packetbeat's PostgreSQL Protocol Handler

CVE-2017-11480 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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