vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-8806): postgresql-common vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Nov 9, 2017
Added
Nov 10, 2017
Modified
Apr 25, 2025

Description

Dawid Golunski discovered that the postgresql-common pg_ctlcluster script
incorrectly handled symlinks. A local attacker could possibly use this
issue to escalate privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-1255)

It was discovered that the postgresql-common helper scripts incorrectly
handled symlinks. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to
escalate privileges. (CVE-2017-8806)

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-common
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