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Gentoo: GLSA-200705-13 Moderate: MySQL Data Exposure Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2007
Scroller Gentoo
PostgreSQL has a vulnerability regarding privilege escalation. It's recommended to upgrade to the newest version to enhance security. Find further details here.
PostgreSQL contains a vulnerability that could result in SQL privilege escalation.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200705-12 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: PostgreSQL: Privilege escalation Date: May 10, 2007 Bugs: #175791 ID: 200705-12

Synopsis ======= PostgreSQL contains a vulnerability that could result in SQL privilege escalation.
Background ========= PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management system.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-db/postgresql < 8.0.13 >= 8.0.13 *>= 7.4.17 *>= 7.3.19
========== An error involving insecure search_path settings in...

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