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Red Hat: RHSA-2021:5236 Moderate: PostgreSQL Memory Leak Risk

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Calendar Grey December 21, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Oracle has released an update for MySQL 8.0, tackling several vulnerabilities that could lead to privilege escalation and potential data leaks.
An update for the postgresql:13 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 (13.5).
Security Fix(es):
* postgresql: memory disclosure in certain queries (CVE-2021-3677)
* postgresql: server processes unencrypted bytes from man-in-the-middle (CVE-2021-23214)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat PostgreSQL memory disclosure server threat

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3677 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-23214 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: pg_repack-1.4.6-3.module+el8.5.0+11357+bcc62552.src.rpm pgaudit-1.5.0-1.module+el8.4.0+8873+b821c30a.src.rpm postgres-decoderbufs-0.10.0-2.module+el8.4.0+8873+b821c30a.src.rpm postgresql-13.5-1.module+el8.5.0+13344+8c0fd184.src.rpm
aarch64: pg_repack-1.4.6-3.module+el8.5.0+11357+bcc62552.aarch64.rpm pg_repack-debuginfo-1.4.6-3.module+el8.5.0+11357+bcc62552.aarch64.rpm pg_repack-debugsource-1.4.6-3.module+el8.5.0+11357+bcc62552.aarch64.rpm pgaudit-1.5.0-1.module+el8.4.0+8873+b821c30a.aarch64.rpm pgaudit-debuginfo-1.5.0-1.module+el8.4.0+8873+b821c30a.aarch64.rpm pgaudit-debugsource-1.5.0-1.module+el8.4.0+8873+b821c30a.aarch64.rpm postgres-decoderbufs-0.10.0-2.module+el8.4.0+8873+b821c30a.aarch64.rpm postgres-decoderbufs-debuginfo-0.10.0-2.module+el8.4.0+8873+b821c30a.aarch64.rpm postgres-decoderbufs-debugsource-0.10.0-2.module+el8.4.0+8873+b821c30a.aarch64.rpm postgresql-13.5-1.module+el8.5.0+13344+8c0fd184.aarch64.rpm postgresql-contrib-13.5-1.module+el8.5.0+13344+8c0fd184.aarch64.rpm postgresql-contrib-debuginfo-13.5-1.module+el8.5.0+13344+8c0fd184.aarch64.rpm postgresql-debuginfo-13.5-1.module+el8.5.0+13344+8c0fd184.aarch64.rpm postgresql-debugsource-13.5-1.module+el8.5.0+13344+8c0fd184.aarch64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:5236-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:5236
Issue date: 2021-12-21

Topic

An update for the postgresql:13 module is now available for Red HatEnterprise Linux 8.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat PostgreSQL memory disclosure server threat

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

2001857 - CVE-2021-3677 postgresql: memory disclosure in certain queries

2022666 - CVE-2021-23214 postgresql: server processes unencrypted bytes from man-in-the-middle

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