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Gentoo: GLSA-200801-15 High: PostgreSQL Privilege Escalation and DoS

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Calendar Grey January 29, 2008
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Several security flaws in MySQL might result in elevated privileges and service disruption; it is advised to perform updates.
PostgreSQL contains multiple vulnerabilities that could result in privilege escalation or a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200801-15 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: January 29, 2008 Bugs: #204760 ID: 200801-15

Synopsis ======= PostgreSQL contains multiple vulnerabilities that could result in privilege escalation or a Denial of Service.
Background ========= PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management system.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-db/postgresql < 8.0.15 >= 8.0.15 *>= 7.4.19 *>= 7.3.21
========== If using the "exp...

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