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openSUSE: 2021:0337-1 Moderate: PostgreSQL Security Issue

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Calendar Grey February 24, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
The latest openSUSE release tackles significant security flaws in PostgreSQL and strengthens overall system defenses against potential threats.
An update that solves three vulnerabilities and has one errata is now available

Description

This update for postgresql, postgresql13 fixes the following issues:

This update ships postgresql13.

Upgrade to version 13.1:

* CVE-2020-25695, bsc#1178666: Block DECLARE CURSOR ... WITH HOLD and

firing of deferred triggers within index expressions and materialized

view queries.

* CVE-2020-25694, bsc#1178667: a) Fix usage of complex connection-string

parameters in pg_dump, pg_restore, clusterdb, reindexdb, and vacuumdb.

b) When psql's \connect command re-uses connection parameters, ensure

that all non-overridden parameters from a previous connection string are

re-used.

* CVE-2020-25696, bsc#1178668: Prevent psql's \gset command from modifying

specially-treated variables.

* Fix recently-added timetz test case so it works when the USA is not

observing daylight savings time. (obsoletes postgresql-timetz.patch)

* https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-131-125-1110-1015-9620-and-9524-released-2111/

*...

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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 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-337=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

postgresql-13-lp152.3.6.1

postgresql-contrib-13-lp152.3.6.1

postgresql-devel-13-lp152.3.6.1

postgresql-docs-13-lp152.3.6.1

postgresql-llvmjit-13-lp152.3.6.1

postgresql-plperl-13-lp152.3.6.1

postgresql-plpython-13-lp152.3.6.1

postgresql-pltcl-13-lp152.3.6.1

postgresql-server-13-lp152.3.6.1

postgresql-server-devel-13-lp152.3.6.1

postgresql-test-13-lp152.3.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25694.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25695.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25696.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178666

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178667

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178668

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1178961

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0337-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 ble.

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Topics Covered

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