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USN-1378-1: PostgreSQL vulnerabilities

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USN-1378-1: PostgreSQL vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/18/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in pg_dump in PostgreSQL 8.3.x before 8.3.18, 8.4.x before 8.4.11, 9.0.x before 9.0.7, and 9.1.x before 9.1.3 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via a crafted file containing object names with newlines, which are inserted into an SQL script that is used when the database is restored.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-8-3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-8-4
  • ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-9-1

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