Moderate: rh-postgresql95-postgresql security update
Security Advisory: Moderate
An update for rh-postgresql95-postgresql is now available for Red Hat Satellite 5.8 and Red Hat Satellite 5.8 ELS.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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.
This update applies only to Satellite 5.8 instances using either embedded or managed PostgreSQL databases.
There are manual steps required in order to finish the migration from postgresql92-postgresql to rh-postgresql95-postgresql. If these steps are not undertaken, the affected Satellite will continue to use PostgreSQL 9.2.
postgresql92-postgresql will be upgraded automatically to rh-postgresql95-postgresql as part of an upgrade to Satellite 5.8.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system (DBMS).
Security Fix(es):
Red Hat would like to thank the PostgreSQL project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Robert Haas as the original reporter of CVE-2017-7484; Daniel Gustafsson as the original reporter of CVE-2017-7485; and Andrew Wheelwright as the original reporter of CVE-2017-7486.
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
After applying this update restart Satellite database using following command:
db-control stop && db-control start