Bug 225493

Summary:	CVE-2007-0555 PostgreSQL arbitrary memory read flaw
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	postgresql	Assignee:	Tom Lane <tgl>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	dkovalsk, hhorak, security-response-team
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	reported=20070129,source=redhat,impact=moderate,embargo=20070205
Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2007-0064	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Josh Bressers 2007-01-30 21:50:52 UTC

An authenticated PostgreSQL user has the ability to crash the database server or
possibly read arbitrary memory for the server process.  This is caused by
insufficient type checking for SQL-language functions.

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2007-01-30 22:04:21 UTC

This flaw also affects RHEL3

Comment 2 Tom Lane 2007-02-04 22:26:28 UTC

Note that in RHEL3, the relevant package is rh-postgresql ... we don't ship a plain "postgresql" package in 
that branch, for long-obsolete reasons.

Comment 4 Mark J. Cox 2007-02-05 11:32:23 UTC

removing embargo; public at http://www.postgresql.org/support/security.html

Comment 7 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-02-07 18:25:02 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0064.html