Description
PostgreSQL 8.2 before 8.2.6, 8.1 before 8.1.11, 8.0 before 8.0.15, 7.4 before 7.4.19, and 7.3 before 7.3.21 uses superuser privileges instead of table owner privileges for (1) VACUUM and (2) ANALYZE operations within index functions, and supports (3) SET ROLE and (4) SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION within index functions, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:004 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1460 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28445 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10493 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27163 ↗
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1768 ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0038.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28454 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485864/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28359 ↗
- http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.905 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00000.html ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0061 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28679 ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0109 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28376 ↗
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-103197-1 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28437 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28455 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28477 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29638 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28479 ↗
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1463 ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0040.html ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/486407/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28464 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28698 ↗
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01420154 ↗
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-200559-1 ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/568-1/ ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00469.html ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39496 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28438 ↗
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1019157 ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00397.html ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0039.html ↗
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-15.xml ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1071/references ↗