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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5: RHSA-2009:0479-01 Moderate perl-DBD-Pg Overflow

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Calendar Grey May 13, 2009
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Incremental enhancement of perl-DBD-Pg for CentOS addressing memory corruption and resource drain vulnerabilities to strengthen database integrity.
An updated perl-DBD-Pg package that fixes two security issues is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the...

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at

Summary

Perl DBI is a database access Application Programming Interface (API) for the Perl language. perl-DBD-Pg allows Perl applications to access PostgreSQL database servers.
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the pg_getline function implementation. If the pg_getline or getline functions read large, untrusted records from a database, it could cause an application using these functions to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2009-0663)
Note: After installing this update, pg_getline may return more data than specified by its second argument, as this argument will be ignored. This is consistent with current upstream behavior. Previously, the length limit (the second argument) was not enforced, allowing a buffer overflow.
A memory leak flaw was found in the function performing the de-quoting of BYTEA type values acquired from a database. An attacker able to cause an application using perl-DBD-Pg to perform a large number of SQL queries returning BYTEA records, could cause the application to use excessive amounts of memory or, possibly, crash. (CVE-2009-1341)
All users of perl-DBD-Pg are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains backported patches to fix these issues. Applications using perl-DBD-Pg must be restarted for the update to take effect.

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-0663 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-1341 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):
Source:
i386: perl-DBD-Pg-1.49-2.el5_3.1.i386.rpm perl-DBD-Pg-debuginfo-1.49-2.el5_3.1.i386.rpm
x86_64: perl-DBD-Pg-1.49-2.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm perl-DBD-Pg-debuginfo-1.49-2.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):
Source:
i386: perl-DBD-Pg-1.49-2.el5_3.1.i386.rpm perl-DBD-Pg-debuginfo-1.49-2.el5_3.1.i386.rpm
ia64: perl-DBD-Pg-1.49-2.el5_3.1.ia64.rpm perl-DBD-Pg-debuginfo-1.49-2.el5_3.1.ia64.rpm
ppc: perl-DBD-Pg-1.49-2.el5_3.1.ppc.rpm perl-DBD-Pg-debuginfo-1.49-2.el5_3.1.ppc.rpm
s390x: perl-DBD-Pg-1.49-2.el5_3.1.s390x.rpm perl-DBD-Pg-debuginfo-1.49-2.el5_3.1.s390x.rpm
x86_64: perl-DBD-Pg-1.49-2.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm perl-DBD-Pg-debuginfo-1.49-2.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key#package


Advisory ID: RHSA-2009:0479-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2009-05-13

Topic

An updated perl-DBD-Pg package that fixes two security issues is nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the RedHat Security Response Team.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

497367 - CVE-2009-0663 perl-DBD-Pg: pg_getline buffer overflow

497503 - CVE-2009-1341 perl-DBD-Pg: dequote_bytea memory leak

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