Synopsis
Important: rh-postgresql96-postgresql security update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory: Important
Topic
An update for rh-postgresql96-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-postgresql96-postgresql (9.6.10). (BZ#1614340)
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: Memory disclosure in JSON functions (CVE-2017-15098)
- postgresql: pg_upgrade creates file of sensitive metadata under prevailing umask (CVE-2018-1053)
- postgresql: Uncontrolled search path element in pg_dump and other client applications (CVE-2018-1058)
- postgresql: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE fails to enforce SELECT privileges (CVE-2017-15099)
- 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 CVE-2018-10915, CVE-2018-10925, CVE-2017-15098, CVE-2018-1053, CVE-2017-15099, and CVE-2018-1115. Upstream acknowledges Andrew Krasichkov as the original reporter of CVE-2018-10915; David Rowley as the original reporter of CVE-2017-15098; Tom Lane as the original reporter of CVE-2018-1053; Dean Rasheed as the original reporter of CVE-2017-15099; 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 Server) 1 for RHEL 6.7 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1508820 - CVE-2017-15098 postgresql: Memory disclosure in JSON functions
- BZ - 1508823 - CVE-2017-15099 postgresql: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE fails to enforce SELECT privileges
- BZ - 1539619 - CVE-2018-1053 postgresql: pg_upgrade creates file of sensitive metadata under prevailing umask
- BZ - 1547044 - CVE-2018-1058 postgresql: Uncontrolled search path element in pg_dump and other client applications
- 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