Issued:

2018-08-20

Updated:

2018-08-20

RHSA-2018:2511 - Important: rh-postgresql95-postgresql security update

Synopsis

Important: rh-postgresql95-postgresql security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for rh-postgresql95-postgresql is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system (DBMS).

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-postgresql95-postgresql (9.5.14). (BZ#1612671)

Security Fix(es):

• postgresql: Certain host connection parameters defeat client-side security defenses (CVE-2018-10915)

• postgresql: Missing authorization and memory disclosure in INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE statements (CVE-2018-10925)

• postgresql: Memory disclosure in JSON functions (CVE-2017-15098)

• postgresql: pg_upgrade creates file of sensitive metadata under prevailing umask (CVE-2018-1053)

• postgresql: Uncontrolled search path element in pg_dump and other client applications (CVE-2018-1058)

• postgresql: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE fails to enforce SELECT privileges (CVE-2017-15099)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank the PostgreSQL project for reporting CVE-2018-10915, CVE-2018-10925, CVE-2017-15098, CVE-2018-1053, and CVE-2017-15099. Upstream acknowledges Andrew Krasichkov as the original reporter of CVE-2018-10915; David Rowley as the original reporter of CVE-2017-15098; Tom Lane as the original reporter of CVE-2018-1053; and Dean Rasheed as the original reporter of CVE-2017-15099.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

If the postgresql service is running, it will be automatically restarted after installing this update.

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-9.5.14-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-pltcl-9.5.14-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-pltcl-9.5.14-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-server-9.5.14-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-9.5.14-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-static-9.5.14-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-test-9.5.14-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-debuginfo-9.5.14-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-docs-9.5.14-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-devel-9.5.14-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-static-9.5.14-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-libs-9.5.14-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-test-9.5.14-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-server-9.5.14-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-plperl-9.5.14-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-9.5.14-1.el6.src.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-contrib-9.5.14-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-docs-9.5.14-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-libs-9.5.14-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-contrib-9.5.14-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-9.5.14-1.el7.src.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-debuginfo-9.5.14-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-devel-9.5.14-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-plperl-9.5.14-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-plpython-9.5.14-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
• rh-postgresql95-postgresql-plpython-9.5.14-1.el7.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1508820
• This content is not included.BZ - 1508823
• This content is not included.BZ - 1539619
• This content is not included.BZ - 1547044
• This content is not included.BZ - 1609891
• This content is not included.BZ - 1612619

CVEs

• CVE-2017-15098
• CVE-2017-15099
• CVE-2018-1053
• CVE-2018-1058
• CVE-2018-10915
• CVE-2018-10925

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
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