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Fedora 29: 2019-7d0d59764e Critical: postgresql-jdbc Host Name Validation

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Calendar Grey March 12, 2019
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The recent update to postgresql-jdbc resolves a crucial hostname verification vulnerability in Fedora 29, enhancing both database integrity and security.
new upstream version, to fix CVE-2018-10936

Summary

PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management

system. The postgresql-jdbc package includes the .jar files needed for

Java programs to access a PostgreSQL database.

new upstream version, to fix CVE-2018-10936

* Sat Feb 2 2019 Fedora Release Engineering - 42.2.5-2

- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild

* Wed Nov 21 2018 Pavel Raiskup - 42.2.5-1

- new upstream release

[ 1 ] Bug #1601193 - postgresql-jdbc-42.2.5 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1601193

[ 2 ] Bug #1664337 - CVE-2018-10936 postgresql-jdbc: PostgreSQL: Postgres JDBC driver does not perform host name validation by default [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1664337

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-7d0d59764e' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 42.2.5
Release: 2.fc29
Summary: JDBC driver for PostgreSQL

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