Synopsis
Important: rh-postgresql10-postgresql security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
Topic
An update for rh-postgresql10-postgresql is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.
Description
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system (DBMS).
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-postgresql10-postgresql (10.5). (BZ#1612673, BZ#1614337)
Security Fix(es):
- postgresql: Certain host connection parameters defeat client-side security defenses (CVE-2018-10915)
- postgresql: Missing authorization and memory disclosure in INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE statements (CVE-2018-10925)
- postgresql: Too-permissive access control list on function pg_logfile_rotate() (CVE-2018-1115)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Red Hat would like to thank the PostgreSQL project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Andrew Krasichkov as the original reporter of CVE-2018-10915; and Stephen Frost as the original reporter of CVE-2018-1115.
Solution
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
If the postgresql service is running, it will be automatically restarted after installing this update.
Affected Products
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.6 s390x
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.6 ppc64le
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.5 s390x
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.5 ppc64le
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.4 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.4 s390x
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.4 ppc64le
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.3 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.3 s390x
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.3 ppc64le
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7 s390x
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for ARM) 1 aarch64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1573276 - CVE-2018-1115 postgresql: Too-permissive access control list on function pg_logfile_rotate()
- BZ - 1609891 - CVE-2018-10915 postgresql: Certain host connection parameters defeat client-side security defenses
- BZ - 1612619 - CVE-2018-10925 postgresql: Missing authorization and memory disclosure in INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE statements
CVEs
References
Vulmon