-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2658-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Giuseppe Iuculano April 04, 2013 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : postgresql-9.1 Vulnerability : several Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2013-1899 CVE-2013-1900 CVE-2013-1901 Debian Bug : 704479 Several vulnerabilities were discovered in PostgreSQL database server. CVE-2013-1899 Mitsumasa Kondo and Kyotaro Horiguchi of NTT Open Source Software Center discovered that it was possible for a connection request containing a database name that begins with "-" to be crafted that can damage or destroy files within a server's data directory. Anyone with access to the port the PostgreSQL server listens on can initiate this request. CVE-2013-1900 Random numbers generated by contrib/pgcrypto functions may be easy for another database user to guess. CVE-2013-1901 An unprivileged user could run commands that could interfere with in-progress backups For the stable distribution (squeeze), postgresql-9.1 is not available. DSA-2657-1 has been released for CVE-2013-1900 affecting posgresql-8.4. For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 9.1.9-0wheezy1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 9.1.9-1. We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql-9.1 packages. Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: http://www.debian.org/security/ Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlFdiOoACgkQNxpp46476arL3gCfbt0Lqp7YSg4erOgv+GwM5Kxb bQYAn2V5DjfmzTNOanLDYQDFuQHdO3+5 =Ptsq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----