Postgresql - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.5 - TECHNICAL NOTES Manual

This update also corrects a regression introduced in the previous poppler security update,
RHSA-2009:0480, that prevented poppler from rendering certain PDF documents correctly.
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(BZ#528147 )
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to
resolve these issues.

1.164. postgresql

1.164.1. RHSA-2009:1484: Moderate security update
Important
This update has already been released (prior to the GA of this release) as the security
RHSA-2009:1484
errata
Updated postgresql packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 4 and 5.
This update has been rated as having moderate security impact by the Red Hat Security Response
Team.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system (DBMS).
It was discovered that the upstream patch for
Advisory RHSA-2008:0038 did not include protection against misuse of the RESET ROLE and RESET
SESSION AUTHORIZATION commands. An authenticated user could use this flaw to install malicious
code that would later execute with superuser privileges.
A flaw was found in the way PostgreSQL handled encoding conversion. A remote, authenticated
user could trigger an encoding conversion failure, possibly leading to a temporary denial of service.
Note: To exploit this issue, a locale and client encoding for which specific messages fail to translate
must be selected (the availability of these is determined by an administrator-defined locale setting).
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(CVE-2009-0922 )
Note: For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, this update upgrades PostgreSQL to version 7.4.26. For Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5, this update upgrades PostgreSQL to version 8.1.18. Refer to the PostgreSQL
Release Notes for a list of changes:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/release.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/
release.html
All PostgreSQL users should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues. If the
postgresql service is running, it will be automatically restarted after installing this update.
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=528147
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https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2007-6600.html
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https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2009-3230.html
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https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2009-0922.html
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CVE-2007-6600
(CVE-2009-3230
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included in the Red Hat Security
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)
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