CVE-2017-11480: Denial of Service in Packetbeat

February 15, 2022 (updated April 12, 2022)

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

discuss.elastic.co/t/beats-5-6-4-security-update/106739
github.com/advisories/GHSA-9q3g-m353-cp4p
github.com/elastic/beats/pull/5457
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-11480

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