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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+
+<glsa id="200505-12">
+ <title>PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ PostgreSQL is vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks and possibly allows
+ unprivileged users to gain administrator rights.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">postgresql</product>
+ <announced>May 15, 2005</announced>
+ <revised>June 26, 2007: 04</revised>
+ <bug>91231</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="dev-db/postgresql" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="eq">7.3*</unaffected>
+ <unaffected range="eq">7.4*</unaffected>
+ <unaffected range="rge">8.0.1-r3</unaffected>
+ <unaffected range="ge">8.0.2-r1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">7.3.10</vulnerable>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">7.4.7-r2</vulnerable>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">8.0.2-r1</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ PostgreSQL is a SQL compliant, open source object-relational database
+ management system.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ PostgreSQL gives public EXECUTE access to a number of character
+ conversion routines, but doesn't validate the given arguments
+ (CAN-2005-1409). It has also been reported that the contrib/tsearch2
+ module of PostgreSQL misdeclares the return value of some functions as
+ "internal" (CAN-2005-1410).
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ An attacker could call the character conversion routines with specially
+ setup arguments to crash the backend process of PostgreSQL or to
+ potentially gain administrator rights. A malicious user could also call
+ the misdeclared functions of the contrib/tsearch2 module, resulting in
+ a Denial of Service or other, yet uninvestigated, impacts.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All PostgreSQL users should update to the latest available version and
+ follow the guide at <uri
+ link="http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.315">http://www.postgresql.o
+ rg/about/news.315</uri>
+ </p>
+
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose dev-db/postgresql</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2005-1409">CAN-2005-1409</uri>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2005-1410">CAN-2005-1410</uri>
+ <uri link="http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.315">PostgreSQL Announcement</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed, 11 May 2005 15:07:25 +0000">
+ DerCorny
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 15 May 2005 09:19:16 +0000">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>