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CVE-2017-11480 Denial of Service in Packetbeat

HighCVSS 7.5 EPSS 1.4%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

Description

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.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
Elastic github.com/elastic/beats(Go) < 5.6.4 5.6.4
Elastic github.com/elastic/beats(Go) >= 6.0.0-alpha1, < 6.0.0 6.0.0
Elastic github.com/elastic/beats(Go) < 6.1.0+incompatible 6.1.0+incompatible
elasticsearch packetbeat < 5.6.4 5.6.4
Elastic Packetbeat = before 5.6.4 No fix listed

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