Debian: DSA-2630-1: postgresql-8.4 security update

Date 20 Feb 2013

Category Debian Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

Sumit Soni discovered that PostgreSQL,an object-relational SQL database, could be forced to crash when an internal function was called with invalid arguments, resulting in denial of service.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2630-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                        Moritz Muehlenhoff
February 20, 2013                      https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : postgresql-8.4
Vulnerability  : programming error
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID         : CVE-2013-0255

Sumit Soni discovered that PostgreSQL,an object-relational SQL database, 
could be forced to crash when an internal function was called with 
invalid arguments, resulting in denial of service.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 8.4.16-0squeeze1.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 8.4.16-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 8.4.16-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql-8.4 packages.

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