Red Hat: CVE-2017-12172: Moderate: postgresql security update (RHSA-2017:3402)
Description
PostgreSQL 10.x before 10.1, 9.6.x before 9.6.6, 9.5.x before 9.5.10, 9.4.x before 9.4.15, 9.3.x before 9.3.20, and 9.2.x before 9.2.24 runs under a non-root operating system account, and database superusers have effective ability to run arbitrary code under that system account. PostgreSQL provides a script for starting the database server during system boot. Packages of PostgreSQL for many operating systems provide their own, packager-authored startup implementations. Several implementations use a log file name that the database superuser can replace with a symbolic link. As root, they open(), chmod() and/or chown() this log file name. This often suffices for the database superuser to escalate to root privileges when root starts the server.
Solution(s)
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-contrib
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-debuginfo
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-devel
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-docs
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-libs
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-plperl
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-plpython
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-pltcl
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-server
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-static
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-test
- redhat-upgrade-postgresql-upgrade
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