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Red Hat 8.2 RHSA-2021-0057 Important: libpq Connection Security

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Calendar Grey January 11, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
An essential libpq security patch has been made available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 to address numerous security vulnerabilities.
An update for libpq is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support

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

Summary

The libpq package provides the PostgreSQL client library, which allows client programs to connect to PostgreSQL servers.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: libpq (12.5). (BZ#1898227, BZ#1901559)
Security Fix(es):
* postgresql: Reconnection can downgrade connection security settings (CVE-2020-25694)
* postgresql: psql's gset allows overwriting specially treated variables (CVE-2020-25696)
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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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25694 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-25696 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2):
Source: libpq-12.5-1.el8_2.src.rpm
aarch64: libpq-12.5-1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm libpq-debuginfo-12.5-1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm libpq-debugsource-12.5-1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm libpq-devel-12.5-1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm libpq-devel-debuginfo-12.5-1.el8_2.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: libpq-12.5-1.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm libpq-debuginfo-12.5-1.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm libpq-debugsource-12.5-1.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm libpq-devel-12.5-1.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm libpq-devel-debuginfo-12.5-1.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: libpq-12.5-1.el8_2.s390x.rpm libpq-debuginfo-12.5-1.el8_2.s390x.rpm libpq-debugsource-12.5-1.el8_2.s390x.rpm libpq-devel-12.5-1.el8_2.s390x.rpm libpq-devel-debuginfo-12.5-1.el8_2.s390x.rpm
x86_64: libpq-12.5-1.el8_2.i686.rpm libpq-12.5-1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm libpq-debuginfo-12.5-1.el8_2.i686.rpm libpq-debuginfo-12.5-1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm libpq-debugsource-12.5-1.el8_2.i686.rpm libpq-debugsource-12.5-1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm libpq-devel-12.5-1.el8_2.i686.rpm libpq-devel-12.5-1.el8_2.x86_64.rpm libpq-devel-debuginfo-12.5-1.el8_2.i686.rpm libpq-devel-debuginfo-12.5-1.el8_2.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/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:0057-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0057
Issue date: 2021-01-11

Topic

An update for libpq is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2Extended Update Support.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 Red Hat patch important important issue postgresql connection security libpq

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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

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