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CVE-2017-11480

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CVE-2017-11480

Published: Dec 8, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

Elastic

Packetbeat

affected
before 5.6.4

Weaknesses (CWE)

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