metadata/glsa/glsa-200505-12.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200505-12">
  <title>PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    PostgreSQL is vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks and possibly allows
    unprivileged users to gain administrator rights.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">postgresql</product>
  <announced>May 15, 2005</announced>
  <revised>June 26, 2007: 04</revised>
  <bug>91231</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-db/postgresql" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="eq">7.3*</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="eq">7.4*</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="rge">8.0.1-r3</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="ge">8.0.2-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">7.3.10</vulnerable>
      <vulnerable range="lt">7.4.7-r2</vulnerable>
      <vulnerable range="lt">8.0.2-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    PostgreSQL is a SQL compliant, open source object-relational database
    management system.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    PostgreSQL gives public EXECUTE access to a number of character
    conversion routines, but doesn't validate the given arguments
    (CAN-2005-1409). It has also been reported that the contrib/tsearch2
    module of PostgreSQL misdeclares the return value of some functions as
    "internal" (CAN-2005-1410).
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    An attacker could call the character conversion routines with specially
    setup arguments to crash the backend process of PostgreSQL or to
    potentially gain administrator rights. A malicious user could also call
    the misdeclared functions of the contrib/tsearch2 module, resulting in
    a Denial of Service or other, yet uninvestigated, impacts.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All PostgreSQL users should update to the latest available version and
    follow the guide at <uri
    link="http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.315">http://www.postgresql.o
    rg/about/news.315</uri>
    </p>
    
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose dev-db/postgresql</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2005-1409">CAN-2005-1409</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2005-1410">CAN-2005-1410</uri>
    <uri link="http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.315">PostgreSQL Announcement</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 11 May 2005 15:07:25 +0000">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 15 May 2005 09:19:16 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>