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postgresql: privilege escalation via LOAD

Package(s):postgresql CVE #(s):CAN-2005-0227
Created:February 1, 2005 Updated:February 7, 2005
Description: John Heasman has discovered a local privilege escalation in the PostgreSQL server. Any user could use the LOAD extension to load any shared library into the PostgreSQL server; the library's initialization function was then executed with the permissions of the server.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2005-125 2005-02-07
Fedora FEDORA-2005-124 2005-02-07
Gentoo 200502-08 2005-02-07
Ubuntu USN-71-1 2005-02-01
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