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Subject: CVS commit: pkgsrc
From: Adam Ciarcinski
Date: 2013-04-04 23:08:38
Message id: 20130404210838.8953C175DD@cvs.netbsd.org
Log Message:
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released a security update to all \
current versions of the PostgreSQL database system, including versions 9.2.4, \
9.1.9, 9.0.13, and 8.4.17. This update fixes a high-exposure security \
vulnerability in versions 9.0 and later. All users of the affected versions are \
strongly urged to apply the update immediately.
A major security issue fixed in this release, CVE-2013-1899, makes it possible \
for a connection request containing a database name that begins with \
"-" to be crafted that can damage or destroy files within a server's \
data directory. Anyone with access to the port the PostgreSQL server listens on \
can initiate this request.
Two lesser security fixes are also included in this release: CVE-2013-1900, \
wherein random numbers generated by contrib/pgcrypto functions may be easy for \
another database user to guess, and CVE-2013-1901, which mistakenly allows an \
unprivileged user to run commands that could interfere with in-progress backups. \
Finally, this release fixes two security issues with the graphical installers \
for Linux and Mac OS X: insecure passing of superuser passwords to a script, \
CVE-2013-1903 and the use of predictable filenames in /tmp CVE-2013-1902.
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