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Debian Bookworm DSA-5623-1 Critical: PostgreSQL-15 Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey February 14, 2024
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Recent vulnerability in PostgreSQL-15 exposes a privilege escalation issue, enabling malicious actors to execute commands with elevated access. Immediate upgrade advised.
It was discovered that a late privilege drop in the "REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY" command could allow an attacker to trick a user with higher privileges to run SQL comma...
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Summary

It was discovered that a late privilege drop in the "REFRESH MATERIALIZED
VIEW CONCURRENTLY" command could allow an attacker to trick a user with
higher privileges to run SQL commands with these permissions.

For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in
version 15.6-0+deb12u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql-15 packages.

For the detailed security status of postgresql-15 please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/postgresql-15

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: postgresql-15
CVE ID: CVE-2024-0985

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