Several vulnerabilities were discovered in PostgreSQL database server. CVE-2013-1899 Mitsumasa Kondo and Kyotaro Horiguchi of NTT Open Source Software Center discovered that it was possible for a connection request containing a database name that begins with - to be crafted that can damage or destroy files within a server's data directory. Anyone with access to the port the PostgreSQL server listens on can initiate this request. CVE-2013-1900 Random numbers generated by contrib/pgcrypto functions may be easy for another database user to guess. CVE-2013-1901 An unprivileged user could run commands that could interfere with in-progress backups. For the stable distribution (squeeze), postgresql-9.1 is not available. DSA-2657-1 has been released for CVE-2013-1900 affecting posgresql-8.4. For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 9.1.9-0wheezy1. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 9.1.9-1. We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql-9.1 packages.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in PostgreSQL database server.
Mitsumasa Kondo and Kyotaro Horiguchi of NTT Open Source Software Center
discovered that it was possible for a connection request containing a
database name that begins with -
to be crafted that can damage or
destroy files within a server's data directory. Anyone with access to the
port the PostgreSQL server listens on can initiate this request.
Random numbers generated by contrib/pgcrypto functions may be easy for another database user to guess.
An unprivileged user could run commands that could interfere with in-progress backups.
For the stable distribution (squeeze), postgresql-9.1 is not available. DSA-2657-1 has been released for CVE-2013-1900 affecting posgresql-8.4.
For the testing distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 9.1.9-0wheezy1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 9.1.9-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql-9.1 packages.
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