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Arch Linux: Access restriction bypass (CVE-2017-7548)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Aug 16, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An authorization flaw was found in the way PostgreSQL handled large objects. A remote authenticated attacker with no privileges on a large object could potentially use this flaw to overwrite the entire content of the object, thus resulting in denial of service.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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