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Gentoo: GLSA-200505-12 Medium Risk: PostgreSQL Service Disruption Flaw

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Calendar Grey May 15, 2005
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PostgreSQL on Gentoo is susceptible to Denial of Service vulnerabilities, permitting non-privileged users to obtain elevated permissions. Immediate update is advised.
PostgreSQL is vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks and possibly allows unprivileged users to gain administrator rights.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200505-12 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: May 15, 2005 Bugs: #91231 ID: 200505-12

Synopsis ======= PostgreSQL is vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks and possibly allows unprivileged users to gain administrator rights.
Background ========= PostgreSQL is a SQL compliant, open source object-relational database management system.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-db/postgresql < 8.0.2-r1 *>= 7.4.7-r2 *>= 8.0.1-r3 >= 8.0.2-r1
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