cve/2015/CVE-2015-5288.md

### [CVE-2015-5288](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5288)
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### Description

The crypt function in contrib/pgcrypto in PostgreSQL before 9.0.23, 9.1.x before 9.1.19, 9.2.x before 9.2.14, 9.3.x before 9.3.10, and 9.4.x before 9.4.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) or read arbitrary server memory via a "too-short" salt.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.