Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title PostgreSQL: SQL injection
Informations
Name GLSA-201811-24 First vendor Publication 2018-11-30
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2018-11-30
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

A SQL injection in PostgreSQL may allow attackers to execute arbitrary SQL statements.

Background

PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management system.

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in PostgreSQL's pg_upgrade and pg_dump.

Impact

An attacker, by enticing a user to process a specially crafted trigger definition, can execute arbitrary SQL statements with superuser privileges.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All PostgreSQL 9.3.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-9.3.25"

All PostgreSQL 9.4.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-9.4.20"

All PostgreSQL 9.5.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-9.5.15"

All PostgreSQL 9.6.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-9.6.11"

All PostgreSQL 10.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-10.6"

All PostgreSQL 11.x users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/postgresql-11.1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2018-16850 : https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16850

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-24

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201811-24.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-89 Improper Sanitization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 405
Os 2
Os 4

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-12-03 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201811-24.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-11-09 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_1c27a706e3aa11e8b77a6cc21735f730.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2018-12-18 21:21:59
  • Multiple Updates
2018-11-30 13:18:50
  • First insertion