Debian: DSA-2491-1: postgresql-8.4 security update

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in PostgreSQL, an SQL database server: CVE-2012-2143

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2491-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                            Florian Weimer
June 09, 2012                          https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : postgresql-8.4
Vulnerability  : several
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID         : CVE-2012-2143 CVE-2012-2655

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in PostgreSQL, an SQL database
server:

CVE-2012-2143
	The crypt(text, text) function in the pgcrypto contrib module
	did not handle certain passwords correctly, ignoring
	characters after the first character which does not fall into
	the ASCII range.

CVE-2012-2655
	SECURITY DEFINER and SET attributes for a call handler of a
	procedural language could crash the database server.

In addition, this update contains reliability and stability fixes from
the 8.4.12 upstream release.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 8.4.12-0squeeze1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 8.4.12-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql-8.4 packages.

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