ALAS-2018-1079

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-10915   CVE-2018-10925  

A vulnerability was found in libpq, the default PostgreSQL client library where libpq failed to properly reset its internal state between connections. If an affected version of libpq were used with "host" or "hostaddr" connection parameters from untrusted input, attackers could bypass client-side connection security features, obtain access to higher privileged connections or potentially cause other impact through SQL injection, by causing the PQescape() functions to malfunction.(CVE-2018-10915) It was discovered that PostgreSQL failed to properly check authorization on certain statements involved with "INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE". An attacker with "CREATE TABLE" privileges could exploit this to read arbitrary bytes server memory. If the attacker also had certain "INSERT" and limited "UPDATE" privileges to a particular table, they could exploit this to update other columns in the same table.(CVE-2018-10925)

ALAS-2018-1079


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2018-1079
Advisory Release Date: 2018-09-19 17:04 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2018-09-19 23:31 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

A vulnerability was found in libpq, the default PostgreSQL client library where libpq failed to properly reset its internal state between connections. If an affected version of libpq were used with "host" or "hostaddr" connection parameters from untrusted input, attackers could bypass client-side connection security features, obtain access to higher privileged connections or potentially cause other impact through SQL injection, by causing the PQescape() functions to malfunction.(CVE-2018-10915)

It was discovered that PostgreSQL failed to properly check authorization on certain statements involved with "INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE". An attacker with "CREATE TABLE" privileges could exploit this to read arbitrary bytes server memory. If the attacker also had certain "INSERT" and limited "UPDATE" privileges to a particular table, they could exploit this to update other columns in the same table.(CVE-2018-10925)


Affected Packages:

postgresql93, postgresql94, postgresql95


Issue Correction:
Run yum update postgresql93 to update your system.
Run yum update postgresql94 to update your system.
Run yum update postgresql95 to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    postgresql94-libs-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.i686
    postgresql94-plpython27-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.i686
    postgresql94-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.i686
    postgresql94-debuginfo-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.i686
    postgresql94-plpython26-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.i686
    postgresql94-contrib-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.i686
    postgresql94-devel-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.i686
    postgresql94-test-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.i686
    postgresql94-plperl-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.i686
    postgresql94-docs-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.i686
    postgresql94-server-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-plpython26-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-contrib-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-plperl-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-docs-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-pltcl-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-test-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-libs-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-debuginfo-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-plpython27-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-server-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.i686
    postgresql93-devel-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.i686
    postgresql95-test-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.i686
    postgresql95-static-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.i686
    postgresql95-server-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.i686
    postgresql95-devel-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.i686
    postgresql95-plpython27-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.i686
    postgresql95-libs-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.i686
    postgresql95-plperl-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.i686
    postgresql95-docs-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.i686
    postgresql95-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.i686
    postgresql95-contrib-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.i686
    postgresql95-debuginfo-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.i686
    postgresql95-plpython26-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.i686

src:
    postgresql94-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.src
    postgresql93-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.src
    postgresql95-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    postgresql94-plpython26-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql94-contrib-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql94-plpython27-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql94-libs-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql94-docs-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql94-devel-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql94-test-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql94-debuginfo-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql94-server-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql94-plperl-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql94-9.4.19-1.75.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-plpython27-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-libs-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-pltcl-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-test-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-server-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-debuginfo-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-devel-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-contrib-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-plperl-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-plpython26-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql93-docs-9.3.24-1.71.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql95-plpython27-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql95-debuginfo-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql95-plperl-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql95-static-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql95-docs-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql95-plpython26-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql95-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql95-devel-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql95-libs-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql95-test-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql95-server-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.x86_64
    postgresql95-contrib-9.5.14-1.79.amzn1.x86_64