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Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:26 am Post subject: [ GLSA 200801-15 ] PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities |
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
Title: PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 200801-15)
Severity: high
Exploitable: remote
Date: January 29, 2008
Bug(s): #204760
ID: 200801-15
Synopsis
PostgreSQL contains multiple vulnerabilities that could result in privilege
escalation or a Denial of Service.
Background
PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management
system.
Affected Packages
Package: dev-db/postgresql
Vulnerable: < 8.0.15
Unaffected: >= 8.0.15
Unaffected: >= 7.4.19 < 7.4.20
Unaffected: >= 7.3.21 < 7.3.22
Architectures: All supported architectures
Description
If using the "expression indexes" feature, PostgreSQL executes index
functions as the superuser during VACUUM and ANALYZE instead of the
table owner, and allows SET ROLE and SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION in the
index functions (CVE-2007-6600). Additionally, several errors involving
regular expressions were found (CVE-2007-4769, CVE-2007-4772,
CVE-2007-6067). Eventually, a privilege escalation vulnerability via
unspecified vectors in the DBLink module was reported (CVE-2007-6601).
This vulnerability is exploitable when local trust or ident
authentication is used, and is due to an incomplete fix of
CVE-2007-3278.
Impact
A remote authenticated attacker could send specially crafted queries
containing complex regular expressions to the server that could result
in a Denial of Service by a server crash (CVE-2007-4769), an infinite
loop (CVE-2007-4772) or a memory exhaustion (CVE-2007-6067). The two
other vulnerabilities can be exploited to gain additional privileges.
Workaround
There is no known workaround for all these issues at this time.
Resolution
All PostgreSQL users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code: | # emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "dev-db/postgresql" |
References
CVE-2007-3278
CVE-2007-4769
CVE-2007-4772
CVE-2007-6067
CVE-2007-6600
CVE-2007-6601
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