Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-121
Advisory Release Date: 2012-09-04 10:23 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 16:55 Pacific
The libxslt support in contrib/xml2 in PostgreSQL 8.3 before 8.3.20, 8.4 before 8.4.13, 9.0 before 9.0.9, and 9.1 before 9.1.5 does not properly restrict access to files and URLs, which allows remote authenticated users to modify data, obtain sensitive information, or trigger outbound traffic to arbitrary external hosts by leveraging (1) stylesheet commands that are permitted by the libxslt security options or (2) an xslt_process feature, related to an XML External Entity (aka XXE) issue.
Affected Packages:
postgresql9
Issue Correction:
Run yum update postgresql9 to update your system.
i686:
postgresql9-devel-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-docs-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-test-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-pltcl-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-debuginfo-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-plperl-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-plpython-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-contrib-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-server-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-libs-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686
src:
postgresql9-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.src
x86_64:
postgresql9-devel-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-server-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-plperl-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-pltcl-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-libs-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-docs-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-test-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-debuginfo-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-contrib-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-plpython-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64