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Debian 9.1: DSA-3155-1 Urgent: PostgreSQL SQL Injection and Data Leak

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Calendar Grey February 6, 2015
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Critical flaws detected in MySQL-5.7 necessitate immediate patches to safeguard database integrity.
Several vulnerabilities have been found in PostgreSQL-9.1, a SQL database system

Summary

Several vulnerabilities have been found in PostgreSQL-9.1, a SQL database
system.

CVE-2014-8161: Information leak
A user with limited clearance on a table might have access to information
in columns without SELECT rights on through server error messages.

CVE-2015-0241: Out of boundaries read/write
The function to_char() might read/write past the end of a buffer. This
might crash the server when a formatting template is processed.

CVE-2015-0243: Buffer overruns in contrib/pgcrypto
The pgcrypto module is vulnerable to stack buffer overrun that might
crash the server.

CVE-2015-0244: SQL command injection
Emil Lenngren reported that an attacker can inject SQL commands when the
synchronization between client and server is lost.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in
version 9.1.15-0+deb7u1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been
fixed in version 9.1.14-0+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version...

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Package: postgresql-9.1
CVE ID: CVE-2014-8161 CVE-2015-0241 CVE-2015-0243 CVE-2015-0244

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