Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2013-178
Advisory Release Date: 2013-04-04 11:49 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-15 22:49 Pacific
Argument injection vulnerability in PostgreSQL 9.2.x before 9.2.4, 9.1.x before 9.1.9, and 9.0.x before 9.0.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file corruption), and allows remote authenticated users to modify configuration settings and execute arbitrary code, via a connection request using a database name that begins with a "-" (hyphen).
PostgreSQL 9.2.x before 9.2.4 and 9.1.x before 9.1.9 does not properly check REPLICATION privileges, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended backup restrictions by calling the (1) pg_start_backup or (2) pg_stop_backup functions.
PostgreSQL 9.2.x before 9.2.4, 9.1.x before 9.1.9, 9.0.x before 9.0.13, and 8.4.x before 8.4.17, when using OpenSSL, generates insufficiently random numbers, which might allow remote authenticated users to have an unspecified impact via vectors related to the "contrib/pgcrypto functions."
Affected Packages:
postgresql9
Issue Correction:
Run yum update postgresql9 to update your system.
i686:
postgresql9-libs-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-plperl-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-docs-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-contrib-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-pltcl-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-test-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-devel-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-plpython-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-upgrade-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-debuginfo-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-server-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.i686
src:
postgresql9-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.src
x86_64:
postgresql9-test-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-server-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-docs-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-debuginfo-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-pltcl-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-upgrade-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-devel-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-libs-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-plperl-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-plpython-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-contrib-9.2.4-1.35.amzn1.x86_64