Debian 3.0: DSA 516-1 Critical: PostgreSQL Buffer Overflow DoS

A buffer overflow has been discovered in the ODBC driver of PostgreSQL,
an object-relational SQL database, descended from POSTGRES. It possible
to exploit this problem and crash the surrounding application. Hence, a
PHP script using php4-odbc can be utilised to crash the surrounding
Apache webserver. Other parts of postgresql are not affected.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 7.2.1-2woody5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 07.03.0200-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql and related package.


Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
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