PostgreSQL CREATE LANGUAGE Capability Lets Remote Authenticated Administrators Service
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SecurityTracker Alert ID: 1027203 |
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SecurityTracker URL: http://securitytracker.com/id/1027203
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CVE Reference:
CVE-2012-2655
(Links to External Site)
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Date: Jun 25 2012
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Impact:
Denial of service via network
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Fix Available: Yes Vendor Confirmed: Yes Exploit Included: Yes
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Version(s): prior to versions 8.3.19, 8.4.12, 9.0.8, 9.1.4
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Description:
A vulnerability was reported in PostgreSQL. A remote authenticated user can cause denial of service conditions.
A remote authenticated administrative user can create trusted procedural languages and add SECURITY DEFINER or SET attributes to procedural call handlers and then cause the target service to crash.
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Impact:
A remote authenticated user can cause denial of service conditions on the target system.
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Solution:
The vendor has issued a fix (8.3.19, 8.4.12, 9.0.8, 9.1.4).
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Vendor URL: www.postgresql.org/support/security/ (Links to External Site)
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Cause:
Access control error
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Underlying OS:
Linux (Any), UNIX (Any), Windows (Any)
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Message History:
This archive entry has one or more follow-up message(s) listed below.
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Source Message Contents
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Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:34:26 +0000
Subject: PostgreSQL
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CVE-2012-2655
9.1.4, 9.0.8, 8.4.12, 8.3.19
SECURITY DEFINER and SET attributes on procedural call handlers are not ignored and can be used to crash the server
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