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PostgreSQL Multiple Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish 

Secunia Advisory: SA12948  
Release Date: 2005-02-01
Last Update: 2005-02-15

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Unknown
Security Bypass
Privilege escalation
DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:PostgreSQL 7.x
PostgreSQL 8.x

CVE reference:CVE-2005-0227 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2005-0244 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2005-0245 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2005-0246 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2005-0247 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Various vulnerabilities have been reported in PostgreSQL. Some have an unknown impact and others can can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), bypass certain security restrictions, or gain escalated privileges.

1) An error in the "LOAD" option can be exploited by malicious, unprivileged database users to load arbitrary libraries.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code with escalated privileges, but requires that the platform automatically executes initialization functions of shared libraries (includes Windows and ELF-based Unix / Linux systems).

2) A missing permissions check makes it possible for a creator of an aggregate function to execute the specified transition functions. This bypasses the denial of "EXECUTE" permissions on a function.

3) An unspecified security issue in "contrib/intagg" can be exploited to cause a DoS via specially crafted arrays.

4) Multiple boundary errors in the PL/PgSQL parser may be exploited to cause buffer overflows.

NOTE: Other issues have also been reported, which may be security related.

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Solution:
Update to version 8.0.1, 7.4.7, 7.3.9, or 7.2.7 to fix all vulnerabilities but CAN-2005-0247.
http://wwwmaster.postgresql.org/download/mirrors-ftp

Patches have been issued for CAN-2005-0247.

Patch for version 7.4.7:
http://developer.postgresql.org/cvswe...=1.48.2.3;only_with_tag=REL7_4_STABLE

Patch for version 8.0.1:
http://developer.postgresql.org/cvswe...=1.64.4.3;only_with_tag=REL8_0_STABLE

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) John Heasman, NGSSoftware.
2-4) Reported by vendor.

Changelog:
2005-02-07: Added CVE reference.
2005-02-10: Added CVE references.
2005-02-11: Added CVE reference.
2005-02-15: Added patch information for CAN-2005-0247, which is not fixed by the latest versions.

Original Advisory:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2005-02/msg00000.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-02/msg00049.php



Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

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10 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. PostgreSQL Multiple Vulnerabilities
2. PostgreSQL SECURITY DEFINER Functions Privilege Escalation
3. PostgreSQL Denial of Service and Information Disclosure
4. PostgreSQL Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
5. PostgreSQL Encoding-Based SQL Injection Vulnerability
6. PostgreSQL Privilege Escalation and Denial of Service
7. PostgreSQL Multiple Connections Denial of Service Vulnerability
8. PostgreSQL Character Conversion and tsearch2 Module Vulnerabilities
9. PostgreSQL "make_oidjoins_check" Insecure Temporary File Handling
10. PostgreSQL "pg_to_ascii()" Buffer Overflow Vulnerability


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