Several security issues were fixed in PostgreSQL.
It was discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly checked permissions on functions called by a trigger. An attacker could attach a trigger to a table they owned and possibly escalate privileges. (CVE-2012-0866)
28 February 2012
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Several security issues were fixed in PostgreSQL.
It was discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly checked permissions on functions called by a trigger. An attacker could attach a trigger to a table they owned and possibly escalate privileges. (CVE-2012-0866)
It was discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly truncated SSL certificate name checks to 32 characters. If a host name was exactly 32 characters, this issue could be exploited by an attacker to spoof the SSL certificate. This issue affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 10.10, Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10. (CVE-2012-0867)
It was discovered that the PostgreSQL pg_dump utility incorrectly filtered line breaks in object names. An attacker could create object names that execute arbitrary SQL commands when a dump script is reloaded. (CVE-2012-0868)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug fixes.
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