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 backports for the stable distribution (squeeze-backports), these
problems have been fixed in version 9.1.9-1~bpo60+1.
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. (DSA-2658-1)
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.
Christoph
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