[OpenPKG-SA-2006.004] OpenPKG Security Advisory (postgresql)
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OpenPKG Security Advisory The OpenPKG Project
http://www.openpkg.org/security.html http://www.openpkg.org
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OpenPKG-SA-2006.004 19-Feb-2006
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Package: postgresql
Vulnerability: privilege escalation
OpenPKG Specific: no
Affected Releases: Affected Packages: Corrected Packages:
OpenPKG CURRENT <= postgresql-8.1.2-20060211 >= postgresql-8.1.3-20060213
OpenPKG 2.5 <= postgresql-8.0.4-2.5.0 >= postgresql-8.0.4-2.5.1
OpenPKG 2.4 <= postgresql-8.0.3-2.4.0 >= postgresql-8.0.3-2.4.1
OpenPKG 2.3 <= postgresql-8.0.1-2.3.1 >= postgresql-8.0.1-2.3.2
Description:
According to vendor security information [0], privilege escalation
vulnerabilitiesd exist in the PostgreSQL RDBMS [1] before version
8.1.3. The bug allowed any logged-in user to "SET ROLE" to any other
database user id. Due to inadequate validity checking, a user could
exploit the special case that "SET ROLE" normally uses to restore the
previous role setting after an error. This allowed ordinary users to
acquire superuser status, for example. The Common Vulnerabilities
and Exposures (CVE) project assigned the id CVE-2006-0553 [2] to the
problem.
The escalation of privilege risk exists only in versions 8.1.0 to
8.1.2. However, in all versions back to 7.3 there is a related bug in
"SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION" that allows unprivileged users to crash
the server, if it has been compiled with Asserts enabled (which is not
the default).
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References:
[0] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/release.html#RELEASE-8-1-3
[1] http://www.postgresql.org/
[2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0553
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