LWN.net Logo

postgresql: multiple vulnerabilities

Package(s):postgresql CVE #(s):CVE-2012-0866 CVE-2012-0867 CVE-2012-0868
Created:February 27, 2012 Updated:September 28, 2012
Description: From the Debian advisory:

CVE-2012-0866: It was discovered that the permissions of a function called by a trigger are not checked. This could result in privilege escalation.

CVE-2012-0867: It was discovered that only the first 32 characters of a host name are checked when validating host names through SSL certificates. This could result in spoofing the connection in limited circumstances.

CVE-2012-0868: It was discovered that pg_dump did not sanitise object names. This could result in arbitrary SQL command execution if a malformed dump file is opened.

See the PostgreSQL 9.1.3, 9.0.7, 8.4.11 and 8.3.18 update announcement for more information.

Alerts:
Debian DSA-2418-1 2012-02-27
Ubuntu USN-1378-1 2012-02-28
Mandriva MDVSA-2012:027 2012-02-29
Mandriva MDVSA-2012:026 2012-02-29
Fedora FEDORA-2012-2591 2012-03-08
Fedora FEDORA-2012-2589 2012-03-08
openSUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:0480-1 2012-04-11
Red Hat RHSA-2012:0677-01 2012-05-21
Red Hat RHSA-2012:0678-01 2012-05-21
CentOS CESA-2012:0677 2012-05-21
CentOS CESA-2012:0678 2012-05-21
CentOS CESA-2012:0678 2012-05-21
Scientific Linux SL-post-20120522 2012-05-22
Scientific Linux SL-post-20120522 2012-05-22
Oracle ELSA-2012-0678 2012-05-22
Oracle ELSA-2012-0678 2012-05-22
Oracle ELSA-2012-0677 2012-05-22
Oracle ELSA-2012-1037 2012-06-26
Oracle ELSA-2012-1037 2012-06-30
Oracle ELSA-2012-1263 2012-09-14
Gentoo 201209-24 2012-09-28

(Log in to post comments)

Copyright © 2013, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds