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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2020:5619-01 Important: PostgreSQL Update

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Calendar Grey December 17, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A crucial announcement concerning postgresql:9.6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been released, remedying several vulnerabilities.
An update for the postgresql:9.6 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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).
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: postgresql (9.6.20).
Security Fix(es):
* postgresql: Reconnection can downgrade connection security settings (CVE-2020-25694)
* postgresql: Multiple features escape "security restricted operation" sandbox (CVE-2020-25695)
* postgresql: TYPE in pg_temp executes arbitrary SQL during SECURITY DEFINER execution (CVE-2019-10208)
* postgresql: Uncontrolled search path element in CREATE EXTENSION (CVE-2020-14350)
* postgresql: psql's gset allows overwriting specially treated variables (CVE-2020-25696)
* postgresql: Selectivity estimators bypass row security policies (CVE-2019-10130)
* postgresql: ALTER ... DEPENDS ON EXTENSION is missing authorization checks (CVE-2020-1720)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update red hat important security issues database database security postgresql module

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10130 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10208 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1720 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-14350 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25694 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25695 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25696 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: postgresql-9.6.20-1.module+el8.3.0+8938+7f0e88b6.src.rpm
aarch64: postgresql-9.6.20-1.module+el8.3.0+8938+7f0e88b6.aarch64.rpm postgresql-contrib-9.6.20-1.module+el8.3.0+8938+7f0e88b6.aarch64.rpm postgresql-contrib-debuginfo-9.6.20-1.module+el8.3.0+8938+7f0e88b6.aarch64.rpm postgresql-debuginfo-9.6.20-1.module+el8.3.0+8938+7f0e88b6.aarch64.rpm postgresql-debugsource-9.6.20-1.module+el8.3.0+8938+7f0e88b6.aarch64.rpm postgresql-docs-9.6.20-1.module+el8.3.0+8938+7f0e88b6.aarch64.rpm postgresql-docs-debuginfo-9.6.20-1.module+el8.3.0+8938+7f0e88b6.aarch64.rpm postgresql-plperl-9.6.20-1.module+el8.3.0+8938+7f0e88b6.aarch64.rpm postgresql-plperl-debuginfo-9.6.20-1.module+el8.3.0+8938+7f0e88b6.aarch64.rpm postgresql-plpython3-9.6.20-1.module+el8.3.0+8938+7f0e88b6.aarch64.rpm postgresql-plpython3-debuginfo-9.6.20-1.module+el8.3.0+8938+7f0e88b6.aarch64.rpm postgresql-pltcl-9.6.20-1.module+el8.3.0+8938+7f0e88b6.aarch64.rpm postgresql-pltcl-debuginfo-9.6.20-1.module+el8.3.0+8938+7f0e88b6.aarch64.rpm postgresql-server-9.6.20-1.module+el8.3.0+8938+7f0e88b6.aarch64.rpm postgresql-server-debuginfo-9.6.20-1.module+el8.3.0+8938+7f0e88b6.aarch64.rpm postgresql-server-devel-9.6.20-1.module+el8.3.0+8938+7f0e88b6.aarch64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:5619-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:5619
Issue date: 2020-12-17

Topic

An update for the postgresql:9.6 module is now available for Red HatEnterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update red hat important security issues database database security postgresql module

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1707109 - CVE-2019-10130 postgresql: Selectivity estimators bypass row security policies

1734416 - CVE-2019-10208 postgresql: TYPE in pg_temp executes arbitrary SQL during SECURITY DEFINER execution

1798852 - CVE-2020-1720 postgresql: ALTER ... DEPENDS ON EXTENSION is missing authorization checks

1865746 - CVE-2020-14350 postgresql: Uncontrolled search path element in CREATE EXTENSION

1894423 - CVE-2020-25694 postgresql: Reconnection can downgrade connection security settings

1894425 - CVE-2020-25695 postgresql: Multiple features escape "security restricted operation" sandbox

1894430 - CVE-2020-25696 postgresql: psql's gset allows overwriting specially treated variables

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