GLSA 201811-24: PostgreSQL: SQL injection

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Severity:	normal
Title:	PostgreSQL: SQL injection
Date:	11/30/2018
Bugs:	#670724
ID:	201811-24

Synopsis

A SQL injection in PostgreSQL may allow attackers to execute arbitrary SQL statements.

Background

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management system.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
dev-db/postgresql	9.3.25	>= 9.3.25	All supported architectures

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in PostgreSQL’s pg_upgrade and pg_dump.

Impact

An attacker, by enticing a user to process a specially crafted trigger definition, can execute arbitrary SQL statements with superuser privileges.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All PostgreSQL 9.3.x users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-9.3.25"

All PostgreSQL 9.4.x users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-9.4.20"

All PostgreSQL 9.5.x users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-9.5.15"

All PostgreSQL 9.6.x users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-9.6.11"

All PostgreSQL 10.x users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-10.6"

All PostgreSQL 11.x users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-11.1"

References

CVE-2018-16850

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201811-24.xml

Concerns?

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