Security Information / 2012 / Security Information -- DSA-2418-1 postgresql-8.4

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2418-1 postgresql-8.4 -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

27 Feb 2012

Affected Packages:

postgresql-8.4

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-0866, CVE-2012-0867, CVE-2012-0868.

More information:

Several local vulnerabilities have been discovered in PostgreSQL, an object-relational SQL database. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

• CVE-2012-0866

  It was discovered that the permissions of a function called by a trigger are not checked. This could result in privilege escalation.

• CVE-2012-0867

  It was discovered that only the first 32 characters of a host name are checked when validating host names through SSL certificates. This could result in spoofing the connection in limited circumstances.

• CVE-2012-0868

  It was discovered that pg_dump did not sanitise object names. This could result in arbitrary SQL command execution if a malformed dump file is opened.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 8.4.11-0squeeze1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 8.4.11-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql-8.4 packages.