| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'postgresql-8.1' package(s) announced via the DSA-1460-1 advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
Several local vulnerabilities have been discovered in PostgreSQL, an object-relational SQL database. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2007-3278
It was discovered that the DBLink module performed insufficient credential validation. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2007-6601, since the initial upstream fix was incomplete.
CVE-2007-4769
Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry discovered that a bug in the handling of back-references inside the regular expressions engine could lead to an out of bounds read, resulting in a crash. This constitutes only a security problem if an application using PostgreSQL processes regular expressions from untrusted sources.
CVE-2007-4772
Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry discovered that the optimizer for regular expression could be tricked into an infinite loop, resulting in denial of service. This constitutes only a security problem if an application using PostgreSQL processes regular expressions from untrusted sources.
CVE-2007-6067
Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry discovered that the optimizer for regular expression could be tricked massive resource consumption. This constitutes only a security problem if an application using PostgreSQL processes regular expressions from untrusted sources.
CVE-2007-6600
Functions in index expressions could lead to privilege escalation. For a more in depth explanation please see the upstream announce available at [link moved to references].
The old stable distribution (sarge), doesn't contain postgresql-8.1.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version postgresql-8.1 8.1.11-0etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 8.2.6-1 of postgresql-8.2.
We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql-8.1 (8.1.11-0etch1) package.
Affected Software/OS:
'postgresql-8.1' package(s) on Debian 4.
Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).
CVSS Score:
7.2
CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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