Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2016-689
Advisory Release Date: 2016-04-21 16:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2016-04-21 16:00 Pacific
An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the PostgreSQL handling code for regular expressions. A remote attacker could use a specially crafted regular expression to cause PostgreSQL to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Affected Packages:
postgresql8
Issue Correction:
Run yum update postgresql8 to update your system.
i686:
postgresql8-devel-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.i686
postgresql8-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.i686
postgresql8-pltcl-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.i686
postgresql8-debuginfo-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.i686
postgresql8-plpython-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.i686
postgresql8-server-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.i686
postgresql8-libs-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.i686
postgresql8-plperl-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.i686
postgresql8-contrib-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.i686
postgresql8-test-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.i686
postgresql8-docs-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.i686
src:
postgresql8-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.src
x86_64:
postgresql8-libs-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql8-docs-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql8-plpython-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql8-server-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql8-devel-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql8-debuginfo-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql8-contrib-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql8-pltcl-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql8-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql8-plperl-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql8-test-8.4.20-5.52.amzn1.x86_64