Bug 427128 (CVE-2007-6601)

Summary:	CVE-2007-6601 PostgreSQL privilege escalation via dblink
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	kreilly, security-response-team, tgl, thoger
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	8.2.6-1.fc8	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2008-01-11 22:14:16 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	427129, 427130, 427131, 427132, 427133, 427772, 427773, 427774
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Description Josh Bressers 2008-01-01 02:28:29 UTC

privilege escalation via dblink (second attempt at fixing issue reported in
CVE-2007-3278; the previous patch fixed only some of the functions that expose
the hole)

Comment 7 Tomas Hoger 2008-01-07 13:58:37 UTC

Public now, lifting embargo:

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.905
http://www.postgresql.org/support/security.html

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2008-01-11 22:14:01 UTC

postgresql-8.2.6-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 13 Fedora Update System 2008-01-11 22:24:05 UTC

postgresql-8.2.6-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 15 Red Hat Product Security 2008-02-01 15:11:37 UTC

This issue was addressed in:

Red Hat Application Stack:
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0040.html

Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0038.html
  http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0039.html

Fedora:
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F7/FEDORA-2008-0552
  https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-0478