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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1994-1 postgresql-common -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

14 Nov 2019

Affected Packages:

postgresql-common

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2019-3466.

More information:

Rich Mirch discovered that the pg_ctlcluster script didn't drop privileges when creating socket/statistics temporary directories, which could result in local privilege escalation.

For the oldoldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 165+deb8u4.

We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql-common packages.

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