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Red Hat: RHSA-2017:3405-01 Moderate: PostgreSQL Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey December 8, 2017
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This notice introduces a moderate revision for rh-postgresql96 aimed at addressing privilege escalation vulnerabilities while offering comprehensive update instructions.
An update for rh-postgresql96-postgresql is now available for Red Hat Software Collections

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

If the postgresql service is running, it will be automatically restarted after installing this update.

Summary

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system (DBMS).
Security Fix(es):
* Privilege escalation flaws were found in the initialization scripts of PostgreSQL. An attacker with access to the postgres user account could use these flaws to obtain root access on the server machine. (CVE-2017-12172, CVE-2017-15097)
Note: This patch drops the script privileges from root to the postgres user. Therefore, we dropped the --new-systemd-unit option for security reasons. Please use the root-only script postgresql-new-systemd-unit.
Red Hat would like to thank the PostgreSQL project for reporting CVE-2017-12172. The CVE-2017-15097 issue was discovered by Pedro Barbosa (Red Hat) and the PostgreSQL project. Upstream acknowledges Antoine Scemama (Brainloop) as the original reporter of these issues.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update privilege escalation software fix PostgreSQL Red Hat Software Collections

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-12172 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-15097 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6):
Source: rh-postgresql96-postgresql-9.6.5-2.el6.src.rpm
x86_64: rh-postgresql96-postgresql-9.6.5-2.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-postgresql96-postgresql-contrib-9.6.5-2.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-postgresql96-postgresql-contrib-syspaths-9.6.5-2.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-postgresql96-postgresql-debuginfo-9.6.5-2.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-postgresql96-postgresql-devel-9.6.5-2.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-postgresql96-postgresql-docs-9.6.5-2.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-postgresql96-postgresql-libs-9.6.5-2.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-postgresql96-postgresql-plperl-9.6.5-2.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-postgresql96-postgresql-plpython-9.6.5-2.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-postgresql96-postgresql-pltcl-9.6.5-2.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-postgresql96-postgresql-server-9.6.5-2.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-postgresql96-postgresql-server-syspaths-9.6.5-2.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-postgresql96-postgresql-static-9.6.5-2.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-postgresql96-postgresql-syspaths-9.6.5-2.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-postgresql96-postgresql-test-9.6.5-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7):
Source: rh-postgresql96-postgresql-9.6.5-2.el6.src.rpm
x86_64: rh-postgresql96-postgresql-9.6.5-2.el6.x86_64.rpm rh-postgresql96-postgresql-contrib-9.6.5-2.el6.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2017:3405-01
Product: Red Hat Software Collections
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3405
Issue date: 2017-12-08

Topic

An update for rh-postgresql96-postgresql is now available for Red HatSoftware Collections.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update privilege escalation software fix PostgreSQL Red Hat Software Collections

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7) - x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.4) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1498394 - CVE-2017-12172 postgresql: Start scripts permit database administrator to modify root-owned files

1508985 - CVE-2017-15097 postgresql: Start scripts permit database administrator to modify root-owned files

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