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USN-942-1: PostgreSQL vulnerabilities

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USN-942-1: PostgreSQL vulnerabilities

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/19/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/06/2013
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

PostgreSQL 7.4 before 7.4.29, 8.0 before 8.0.25, 8.1 before 8.1.21, 8.2 before 8.2.17, 8.3 before 8.3.11, 8.4 before 8.4.4, and 9.0 Beta before 9.0 Beta 2 does not properly restrict PL/perl procedures, which allows remote authenticated users, with database-creation privileges, to execute arbitrary Perl code via a crafted script, related to the Safe module (aka Safe.pm) for Perl. NOTE: some sources report that this issue is the same as CVE-2010-1447.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-plperl-8-3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-plperl-8-4
  • ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-pltcl-8-3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-pltcl-8-4

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