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openSUSE Leap 42.3: SUSE-SU-2018:3449-1 Important PostgreSQL96 Exploits

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Calendar Grey October 25, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest update for postgresql96 addresses critical security vulnerabilities. This version is now accessible for users of openSUSE Leap 42.3.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for postgresql96 to 9.6.10 fixes the following issues:

These security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2018-10915: libpq failed to properly reset its internal state

between connections. If an affected version of libpq was used with

"host" or "hostaddr" connection parameters from untrusted input,

attackers could have bypassed client-side connection security features,

obtain access to higher privileged connections or potentially cause

other impact SQL injection, by causing the PQescape() functions to

malfunction (bsc#1104199)

- CVE-2018-10925: Add missing authorization check on certain statements

involved with "INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE". An attacker with

"CREATE TABLE" privileges could have exploited this to read arbitrary

bytes server memory. If the attacker also had certain "INSERT" and

limited "UPDATE" privileges to a particular table, they could have

exploited this to update

other columns in the...

Read the Full Advisory

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1278=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

postgresql96-9.6.10-21.1

postgresql96-contrib-9.6.10-21.1

postgresql96-contrib-debuginfo-9.6.10-21.1

postgresql96-debuginfo-9.6.10-21.1

postgresql96-debugsource-9.6.10-21.1

postgresql96-devel-9.6.10-21.1

postgresql96-devel-debuginfo-9.6.10-21.1

postgresql96-libs-debugsource-9.6.10-21.1

postgresql96-plperl-9.6.10-21.1

postgresql96-plperl-debuginfo-9.6.10-21.1

postgresql96-plpython-9.6.10-21.1

postgresql96-plpython-debuginfo-9.6.10-21.1

postgresql96-pltcl-9.6.10-21.1

postgresql96-pltcl-debuginfo-9.6.10-21.1

postgresql96-server-9.6.10-21.1

postgresql96-server-debuginfo-9.6.10-21.1

postgresql96-test-9.6.10-21.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

postgresql96-docs-9.6.10-21.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10915.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10925.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1104199

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1104202

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:3449-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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