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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Title: PostgreSQL: SQL injection (GLSA 201811-24)
Severity: normal
Exploitable: remote
Date: 2018-11-30
Bug(s): #670724
ID: 201811-24

Synopsis

A SQL injection in PostgreSQL may allow attackers to execute
arbitrary SQL statements.


Background

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management
system.


Affected Packages

Package: dev-db/postgresql
Vulnerable: < 9.3.25
Vulnerable: < 9.4.20
Vulnerable: < 9.5.15
Vulnerable: < 9.6.11
Vulnerable: < 10.6
Vulnerable: < 11.1
Unaffected: >= 9.3.25
Unaffected: >= 9.4.20
Unaffected: >= 9.5.15
Unaffected: >= 9.6.11
Unaffected: >= 10.6
Unaffected: >= 11.1
Architectures: All supported architectures


Description

A vulnerability was discovered in PostgreSQL’s pg_upgrade and pg_dump.

Impact

An attacker, by enticing a user to process a specially crafted trigger
definition, can execute arbitrary SQL statements with superuser
privileges.


Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All PostgreSQL 9.3.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code:
# emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-9.3.25"
   
All PostgreSQL 9.4.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code:
# emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-9.4.20"
   
All PostgreSQL 9.5.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code:
# emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-9.5.15"
   
All PostgreSQL 9.6.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code:
# emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-9.6.11"
   
All PostgreSQL 10.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code:
# emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-10.6"
   
All PostgreSQL 11.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
Code:
# emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-11.1"
   


References

CVE-2018-16850


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