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Debian: DSA 1311-1 Moderate: PostgreSQL 7.4 SQL Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey June 29, 2007
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1234-1 addresses a security vulnerability in MySQL 5.7 that allows unauthorized data access due to improper input validation.
It was discovered that the PostgreSQL database performs insufficient validation of variables passed to privileged SQL statement called "security definers", which could lead to SQL ...
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Summary


For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 7.4.17-0etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 7.4.17-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your PostgreSQL packages.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------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
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge

Size/MD5 checksum: 985 42364a5bc0fbda1e5ec7100b8f3fc8b9
Size/MD5 checksum: 197037 6546035d00ff6536cb8b6dbdf8491659
Size/MD5 checksum: 9952102 d193c58aef02a745e8657c48038587ac

Architecture independent components:

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