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 (10.15).
Security Fix(es):
- postgresql: Reconnection can downgrade connection security settings (CVE-2020-25694)
- postgresql: Multiple features escape "security restricted operation" sandbox (CVE-2020-25695)
- postgresql: psql's \gset allows overwriting specially treated variables (CVE-2020-25696)
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.
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 7.7 x86_64
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7.7 s390x
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Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7.7 ppc64le
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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 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 Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
Fixes
- BZ - 1894423 - CVE-2020-25694 postgresql: Reconnection can downgrade connection security settings
- BZ - 1894425 - CVE-2020-25695 postgresql: Multiple features escape "security restricted operation" sandbox
- BZ - 1894430 - CVE-2020-25696 postgresql: psql's \gset allows overwriting specially treated variables
CVEs
References
Vulmon