ALASPOSTGRESQL13-2023-004

Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALASPOSTGRESQL13-2023-004
Advisory Release Date: 2023-09-06 18:59 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-09-25 22:07 Pacific
Severity: Important
Issue Overview:

IN THE EXTENSION SCRIPT, a SQL Injection vulnerability was found in PostgreSQL if it uses @extowner@, @extschema@, or @extschema:...@ inside a quoting construct (dollar quoting, '', or ""). If an administrator has installed files of a vulnerable, trusted, non-bundled extension, an attacker with database-level CREATE privilege can execute arbitrary code as the bootstrap superuser. (CVE-2023-39417)


Affected Packages:

postgresql


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 - Postgresql13 Extra. Visit this page to learn more about Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Extras and 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-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-private-libs-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-private-devel-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-server-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-docs-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-contrib-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-server-devel-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-static-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-upgrade-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-upgrade-devel-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-plperl-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-plpython3-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-pltcl-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-test-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-llvmjit-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-debuginfo-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64

noarch:
    postgresql-test-rpm-macros-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.noarch

src:
    postgresql-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.src

x86_64:
    postgresql-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-private-libs-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-private-devel-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-server-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-docs-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-contrib-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-server-devel-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-static-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-upgrade-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-upgrade-devel-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-plperl-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-plpython3-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-pltcl-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-test-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-llvmjit-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-debuginfo-13.11-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2023-39417

Mitre: CVE-2023-39417