RHEL 6 : rh-postgresql95-postgresql (RHSA-2017:2425)
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The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:2425 advisory. PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system (DBMS). The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-postgresql95-postgresql (9.5.7). (BZ#1449701) Security Fix(es): * A flaw was found in the way PostgreSQL server handled certain SQL statements containing CASE/WHEN commands. A remote, authenticated attacker could use a specially crafted SQL statement to cause PostgreSQL to crash or disclose a few bytes of server memory or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-5423) * A flaw was found in the way PostgreSQL client programs handled database and role names containing newlines, carriage returns, double quotes, or backslashes. By crafting such an object name, roles with the CREATEDB or CREATEROLE option could escalate their privileges to superuser when a superuser next executes maintenance with a vulnerable client program. (CVE-2016-5424) * It was found that some selectivity estimation functions did not check user privileges before providing information from pg_statistic, possibly leaking information. A non-administrative database user could use this flaw to steal some information from tables they are otherwise not allowed to access. (CVE-2017-7484) * It was discovered that the PostgreSQL client library (libpq) did not enforce the use of…Read More

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