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openSUSE Leap 42.3: openSUSE-SU-2018:4007-1 Important libpq Threat

opensuse
Calendar Grey December 7, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
This patch addresses a significant vulnerability in postgresql94 on Fedora, reinforcing enhanced safety protocols.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update for postgresql94 to 9.4.19 fixes the following security issue:

- 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).

A dump/restore is not required for this update unless you use the

functions query_to_xml, cursor_to_xml, cursor_to_xmlschema,

query_to_xmlschema, and query_to_xml_and_xmlschema. In this case please

see the first entry of

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/release-9-4-18.html

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

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-2018-1482=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

postgresql94-9.4.19-24.1

postgresql94-contrib-9.4.19-24.1

postgresql94-contrib-debuginfo-9.4.19-24.1

postgresql94-debuginfo-9.4.19-24.1

postgresql94-debugsource-9.4.19-24.1

postgresql94-devel-9.4.19-24.1

postgresql94-devel-debuginfo-9.4.19-24.1

postgresql94-libs-debugsource-9.4.19-24.1

postgresql94-plperl-9.4.19-24.1

postgresql94-plperl-debuginfo-9.4.19-24.1

postgresql94-plpython-9.4.19-24.1

postgresql94-plpython-debuginfo-9.4.19-24.1

postgresql94-pltcl-9.4.19-24.1

postgresql94-pltcl-debuginfo-9.4.19-24.1

postgresql94-server-9.4.19-24.1

postgresql94-server-debuginfo-9.4.19-24.1

postgresql94-test-9.4.19-24.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

postgresql94-docs-9.4.19-24.1

References

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1104199

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:4007-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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