ALASPOSTGRESQL12-2023-005

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-39417  

IN THE EXTENSION SCRIPT, a SQL Injection vulnerability was found in PostgreSQL if it uses @extowner@, @extschema@, or @extschema:...@ inside a quoting construct (dollar quoting, '', or ""). If an administrator has installed files of a vulnerable, trusted, non-bundled extension, an attacker with database-level CREATE privilege can execute arbitrary code as the bootstrap superuser. (CVE-2023-39417)

ALASPOSTGRESQL12-2023-005


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALASPOSTGRESQL12-2023-005
Advisory Release Date: 2023-09-06 18:59 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-09-25 22:07 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

IN THE EXTENSION SCRIPT, a SQL Injection vulnerability was found in PostgreSQL if it uses @extowner@, @extschema@, or @extschema:...@ inside a quoting construct (dollar quoting, '', or ""). If an administrator has installed files of a vulnerable, trusted, non-bundled extension, an attacker with database-level CREATE privilege can execute arbitrary code as the bootstrap superuser. (CVE-2023-39417)


Affected Packages:

postgresql


Issue Correction:
Run yum update postgresql to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    postgresql-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-server-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-docs-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-contrib-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-server-devel-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-static-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-upgrade-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-upgrade-devel-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-plperl-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-plpython2-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-plpython3-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-pltcl-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-test-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-llvmjit-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64
    postgresql-debuginfo-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.aarch64

i686:
    postgresql-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
    postgresql-server-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
    postgresql-docs-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
    postgresql-contrib-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
    postgresql-server-devel-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
    postgresql-static-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
    postgresql-upgrade-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
    postgresql-upgrade-devel-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
    postgresql-plperl-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
    postgresql-plpython2-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
    postgresql-plpython3-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
    postgresql-pltcl-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
    postgresql-test-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
    postgresql-llvmjit-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.i686
    postgresql-debuginfo-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.i686

noarch:
    postgresql-test-rpm-macros-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.noarch

src:
    postgresql-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.src

x86_64:
    postgresql-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-server-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-docs-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-contrib-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-server-devel-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-static-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-upgrade-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-upgrade-devel-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-plperl-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-plpython2-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-plpython3-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-pltcl-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-test-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-llvmjit-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64
    postgresql-debuginfo-12.15-1.amzn2.0.2.x86_64