<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201811-24"> <title>PostgreSQL: SQL injection</title> <synopsis>A SQL injection in PostgreSQL may allow attackers to execute arbitrary SQL statements. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">postgresql</product> <announced>2018-11-30</announced> <revised count="2">2018-12-03</revised> <bug>670724</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="dev-db/postgresql" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge" slot="9.3">9.3.25</unaffected> <unaffected range="ge" slot="9.4">9.4.20</unaffected> <unaffected range="ge" slot="9.5">9.5.15</unaffected> <unaffected range="ge" slot="9.6">9.6.11</unaffected> <unaffected range="ge" slot="10">10.6</unaffected> <unaffected range="ge" slot="11">11.1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt" slot="9.3">9.3.25</vulnerable> <vulnerable range="lt" slot="9.4">9.4.20</vulnerable> <vulnerable range="lt" slot="9.5">9.5.15</vulnerable> <vulnerable range="lt" slot="9.6">9.6.11</vulnerable> <vulnerable range="lt" slot="10">10.6</vulnerable> <vulnerable range="lt" slot="11">11.1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management system. </p> </background> <description> <p>A vulnerability was discovered in PostgreSQL’s pg_upgrade and pg_dump.</p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>An attacker, by enticing a user to process a specially crafted trigger definition, can execute arbitrary SQL statements with superuser privileges. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>All PostgreSQL 9.3.x users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-9.3.25" </code> <p>All PostgreSQL 9.4.x users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-9.4.20" </code> <p>All PostgreSQL 9.5.x users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-9.5.15" </code> <p>All PostgreSQL 9.6.x users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-9.6.11" </code> <p>All PostgreSQL 10.x users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-10.6" </code> <p>All PostgreSQL 11.x users should upgrade to the latest version:</p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-11.1" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16850">CVE-2018-16850</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2018-11-29T21:19:15Z">b-man</metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2018-12-03T19:06:05Z">b-man</metadata> </glsa>