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PostgreSQL Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA12948
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Release Date:
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2005-02-01
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Last Update:
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2005-02-15
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Popularity:
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14,117 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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Unknown
Security Bypass
Privilege escalation
DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | PostgreSQL 7.x
PostgreSQL 8.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2005-0227
CVE-2005-0244
CVE-2005-0245
CVE-2005-0246
CVE-2005-0247
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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.
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
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