Important: postgresql-jdbc security update
Security Advisory: Important
An update for postgresql-jdbc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
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.
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system. The postgresql-jdbc package includes the .jar files needed for Java programs to access a PostgreSQL database.
Security Fix(es):
This update introduces a backwards incompatible change required to resolve this issue. Refer to the Red Hat Knowledgebase article 5266441 linked to in the References section for information on how to re-enable the old insecure behavior.
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
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