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Critical Update RHSA-2021-2360-01 for PostgreSQL Buffer Overflow Issues

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Calendar Grey June 9, 2021
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Oracle announced patch OJ-2021-4582-01 for mysql:5.7 tackling critical vulnerabilities, notably memory corruption.
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 (9.6.22)
Security Fix(es):
* postgresql: Buffer overrun from integer overflow in array subscripting calculations (CVE-2021-32027)
* postgresql: Memory disclosure in INSERT ... ON CONFLICT ... DO UPDATE (CVE-2021-32028)
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 buffer overflow Red Hat Enterprise Linux important memory disclosure postgresql module update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-32027 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-32028 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: postgresql-9.6.22-1.module+el8.4.0+11244+beebcf7e.src.rpm
aarch64: postgresql-9.6.22-1.module+el8.4.0+11244+beebcf7e.aarch64.rpm postgresql-contrib-9.6.22-1.module+el8.4.0+11244+beebcf7e.aarch64.rpm postgresql-contrib-debuginfo-9.6.22-1.module+el8.4.0+11244+beebcf7e.aarch64.rpm postgresql-debuginfo-9.6.22-1.module+el8.4.0+11244+beebcf7e.aarch64.rpm postgresql-debugsource-9.6.22-1.module+el8.4.0+11244+beebcf7e.aarch64.rpm postgresql-docs-9.6.22-1.module+el8.4.0+11244+beebcf7e.aarch64.rpm postgresql-docs-debuginfo-9.6.22-1.module+el8.4.0+11244+beebcf7e.aarch64.rpm postgresql-plperl-9.6.22-1.module+el8.4.0+11244+beebcf7e.aarch64.rpm postgresql-plperl-debuginfo-9.6.22-1.module+el8.4.0+11244+beebcf7e.aarch64.rpm postgresql-plpython3-9.6.22-1.module+el8.4.0+11244+beebcf7e.aarch64.rpm postgresql-plpython3-debuginfo-9.6.22-1.module+el8.4.0+11244+beebcf7e.aarch64.rpm postgresql-pltcl-9.6.22-1.module+el8.4.0+11244+beebcf7e.aarch64.rpm postgresql-pltcl-debuginfo-9.6.22-1.module+el8.4.0+11244+beebcf7e.aarch64.rpm postgresql-server-9.6.22-1.module+el8.4.0+11244+beebcf7e.aarch64.rpm postgresql-server-debuginfo-9.6.22-1.module+el8.4.0+11244+beebcf7e.aarch64.rpm

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Severity
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:2360-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2360
Issue date: 2021-06-09

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 buffer overflow Red Hat Enterprise Linux important memory disclosure postgresql module update

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1956876 - CVE-2021-32027 postgresql: Buffer overrun from integer overflow in array subscripting calculations

1956877 - CVE-2021-32028 postgresql: Memory disclosure in INSERT ... ON CONFLICT ... DO UPDATE

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