gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200502-08.xml

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<glsa id="200502-08">
  <title>PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    PostgreSQL contains several vulnerabilities which could lead to execution
    of arbitrary code, Denial of Service and security bypass.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">postgresql</product>
  <announced>February 07, 2005</announced>
  <revised>June 26, 2007: 06</revised>
  <bug>80342</bug>
  <access>remote and local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-db/postgresql" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="eq">7.3*</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="eq">7.4*</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="ge">8.0.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">7.3.10</vulnerable>
      <vulnerable range="lt">7.4.7</vulnerable>
      <vulnerable range="lt">8.0.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    PostgreSQL is a SQL compliant, open source object-relational database
    management system.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    PostgreSQL's contains several vulnerabilities:
    </p>
    <ul>
    <li>John Heasman discovered that the LOAD extension is vulnerable to
    local privilege escalation (CAN-2005-0227).</li>
    <li>It is possible to bypass the EXECUTE permission check for functions
    (CAN-2005-0244).</li>
    <li>The PL/PgSQL parser is vulnerable to heap-based buffer overflow
    (CAN-2005-0244).</li>
    <li>The intagg contrib module is vulnerable to a Denial of Service
    (CAN-2005-0246).</li>
    </ul>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    An attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary code with the
    privileges of the PostgreSQL server, bypass security restrictions and
    crash the server.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no know workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All PostgreSQL users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose dev-db/postgresql</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2005-02/msg00000.php">PostgreSQL Announcement</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0227">CAN-2005-0227</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0244">CAN-2005-0244</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0245">CAN-2005-0245</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0246">CAN-2005-0246</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Wed,  2 Feb 2005 18:15:02 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed,  2 Feb 2005 18:50:22 +0000">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun,  6 Feb 2005 17:27:47 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>