ALAS-2024-2567


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2567
Advisory Release Date: 2024-06-06 20:17 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-06-12 20:25 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

While modifying certain SQL array values, missing overflow checks let authenticated database users write arbitrary bytes to a memory area that facilitates arbitrary code execution. Missing overflow checks also let authenticated database users read a wide area of server memory. The CVE-2021-32027 fix covered some attacks of this description, but it missed others. (CVE-2023-5869)


Affected Packages:

postgresql


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update postgresql to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    postgresql-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    postgresql-libs-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    postgresql-server-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    postgresql-docs-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    postgresql-contrib-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    postgresql-devel-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    postgresql-static-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    postgresql-upgrade-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    postgresql-plperl-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    postgresql-plpython-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    postgresql-pltcl-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    postgresql-test-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    postgresql-debuginfo-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.aarch64

i686:
    postgresql-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    postgresql-libs-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    postgresql-server-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    postgresql-docs-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    postgresql-contrib-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    postgresql-devel-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    postgresql-static-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    postgresql-upgrade-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    postgresql-plperl-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    postgresql-plpython-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    postgresql-pltcl-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    postgresql-test-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.i686
    postgresql-debuginfo-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.i686

src:
    postgresql-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.src

x86_64:
    postgresql-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    postgresql-libs-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    postgresql-server-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    postgresql-docs-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    postgresql-contrib-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    postgresql-devel-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    postgresql-static-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    postgresql-upgrade-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    postgresql-plperl-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    postgresql-plpython-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    postgresql-pltcl-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    postgresql-test-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    postgresql-debuginfo-9.2.24-8.amzn2.0.3.x86_64