Bug 237823

Summary:	CVE-2007-2138 SECURITY DEFINER related privilege escalation in PostgreSQL
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak>
Component:	postgresql	Assignee:	Tom Lane <tgl>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.0	CC:	hhorak
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-8-2-4.html
Whiteboard:	impact=moderate,source=gentoo,reported=20070424,public=20070423
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Last Closed:	2007-04-25 15:31:48 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2007-04-25 15:21:59 UTC

Description of problem:

PostgreSQL released a security update that reportedly fixes a bug, that
allowed unprivileged users execute code with privilegies of SECURITY
DEFINER functions.

See URL for details.

Comment 1 Lubomir Kundrak 2007-04-25 15:30:13 UTC

Tom, as PostgreSQL is far beyond the scope of my understanding, could you
please help me determine the following:

1.) whether the flaw affects the 7.1 line, as used in RHEL2.1? I assume it
affects other supported releases, as update was released for the respective
version lines?

2.) how serious the bug is. Is this similar to #156726, where an authenticated
users user could gain superuser rights? Or is it less likely to be exploited?
I have no idea what a SECURITY DEFINER is, and in with what privileges are
those functions executed.

Thanks

Comment 2 Lubomir Kundrak 2007-04-25 15:31:48 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 237680 ***