[OpenPKG-SA-2003.048] OpenPKG Security Advisory (postgresql)

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OpenPKG Security Advisory                            The OpenPKG Project
http://www.openpkg.org/security.html              http://www.openpkg.org
openpkg-security@xxxxxxxxxxx                         openpkg@xxxxxxxxxxx
OpenPKG-SA-2003.048                                          11-Nov-2003
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Package:             postgresql
Vulnerability:       remote code execution
OpenPKG Specific:    no

Affected Releases:   Affected Packages:           Corrected Packages:
OpenPKG CURRENT      <= postgresql-7.3.3-20030723 >= postgresql-7.3.4-20030725
OpenPKG 1.3          N.A.                         none
OpenPKG 1.2          <= postgresql-7.3.1-1.2.3    >= postgresql-7.3.1-1.2.4

Dependent Packages:  none

Notice:
  This is an update for the OpenPKG security advisory
  OpenPKG-SA-2003.047 [7], released on 30-Oct-2003. Unfortunately, the
  package postgresql-7.3.1-1.2.3 (for OpenPKG 1.2 only) accompanying the
  original security advisory was broken because the created security
  patch was accidentally not included into the resulting source RPM
  package. Thanks to Andreas from Conectiva for discovering this
  packaging bug. The package postgresql-7.3.1-1.2.4 accompanying this
  updated security advisory is now fixed by correctly including the
  necessary security patch.

Description:
  Two bugs leading to a buffer overflow in the PostgreSQL [0] RDBMS,
  versions 7.2.x and 7.3.x prior to 7.3.4, were discovered. The
  vulnerability exists in the PostgreSQL abstract data type (ADT) to
  ASCII conversion functions.

  It has been conjectured that excessive data passed to the involved
  to_ascii_xxx() functions may overrun the bounds of an insufficient
  buffer reserved in heap memory, resulting in the corruption of heap
  based memory management structures that are adjacent to it. It is
  currently believed that under the correct circumstances an attacker
  may use this to execute arbitrary instructions in the context of the
  PostgreSQL server.

  The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project assigned the id
  CAN-2003-0901 [1] to the problem.

  Please check whether you are affected by running "<prefix>/bin/rpm -q
  postgresql". If you have the "postgresql" package installed and its
  version is affected (see above), we recommend that you immediately
  upgrade it (see Solution). [2][3]

Solution:
  Select the updated source RPM appropriate for the OpenPKG release
  [4], fetch it from the OpenPKG FTP service [5] or a mirror location,
  verify its integrity [6], build a corresponding binary RPM from it
  [2] and update your OpenPKG installation by applying the binary RPM
  [3]. For the release OpenPKG 1.2, perform the following operations
  to permanently fix the security problem (for other releases adjust
  accordingly).

  $ ftp ftp.openpkg.org
  ftp> bin
  ftp> cd release/1.2/UPD
  ftp> get postgresql-7.3.1-1.2.4.src.rpm
  ftp> bye
  $ <prefix>/bin/rpm -v --checksig postgresql-7.3.1-1.2.4.src.rpm
  $ <prefix>/bin/rpm --rebuild postgresql-7.3.1-1.2.4.src.rpm
  $ su -
  # <prefix>/bin/rpm -Fvh <prefix>/RPM/PKG/postgresql-7.3.1-1.2.4.*.rpm
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References:
  [0] http://www.postgresql.org/
  [1] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0901
  [2] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-source
  [3] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-binary
  [4] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/1.2/UPD/postgresql-7.3.1-1.2.4.src.rpm
  [5] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/1.2/UPD/
  [6] http://www.openpkg.org/security.html#signature
  [7] http://www.openpkg.org/security/OpenPKG-SA-2003.047-postgresql.html
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