Description
The core server component in PostgreSQL 8.4 before 8.4.1, 8.3 before 8.3.8, 8.2 before 8.2.14, 8.1 before 8.1.18, 8.0 before 8.0.22, and 7.4 before 7.4.26 does not use the appropriate privileges for the (1) RESET ROLE and (2) RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION operations, which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges. NOTE: this is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-6600.
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.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2602 ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00307.html ↗
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3-8.html ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36314 ↗
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134124585221119&w=2 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36837 ↗
- http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-www/2009-09/msg00024.php ↗
- http://www.postgresql.org/support/security.html ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522085 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36660 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509917/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36800 ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10166 ↗
- http://www.us.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1900 ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00305.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00001.html ↗
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-270408-1 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36727 ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-834-1 ↗
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2010-0012 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36695 ↗