Bug 497503 (CVE-2009-1341)
| Summary: | CVE-2009-1341 perl-DBD-Pg: dequote_bytea memory leak | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Tomas Hoger <thoger> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | jorton, kasal, kreilly, ldimaggi, mjc, mmaslano, psplicha, security-response-team, vdanen |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2009-05-26 17:23:35 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 497999, 498000, 498001, 833953 | ||
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This issue does not affect perl-DBD-Pg versions shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, and 4. Version 1.49 shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Red Hat Application Stack v1 and v2 is affected. Upstream report: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21392 Public now via Debian DSA: http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1780 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2009-1341 to the following vulnerability: Name: CVE-2009-1341 URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-1341 Assigned: 20090417 Reference: MISC: https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2009-1341 Reference: CONFIRM: http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/TURNSTEP/DBD-Pg-2.13.1/Changes Reference: CONFIRM: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21392 Reference: CONFIRM: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libd/libdbd-pg-perl/libdbd-pg-perl_1.49-2+etch1.diff.gz Reference: DEBIAN:DSA-1780 Reference: URL: http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1780 Memory leak in the dequote_bytea function in quote.c in the DBD::Pg (aka DBD-Pg or libdbd-pg-perl) module before 2.0.0 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by fetching data with BYTEA columns. This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2009:0479 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0479.html This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Web Application Stack for RHEL 5 Via RHSA-2009:1067 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1067.html Red Hat Application Stack v1 for Enterprise Linux AS (version 4) is now in the maintenance phase of its life cycle: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/rhappstack/ According to the published Errata Support Policy, only security issues with critical security impact are fixed in Red Hat Application Stack during the maintenance phase. This issue was rated as having moderate security impact and therefore will not be fixed in Red Hat Application Stack v1. |
Bryce Nesbitt notified us about memory leak in DBD-Pg's dequote_bytea (quote.c) caused by: New(0, result, strlen((char *)string)+1, unsigned char); result = string; ... Renew(result, (*retlen), unsigned char); When DBD::Pg is used to get date from tables with columns of BYTEA PostgreSQL, memory is leaked. This can result in out-of-memory conditions when the affected perl script is long-running one or used with e.g. mod_perl. This problem should be fixed in DBD-Pg versions 2.x, where extraneous New / Renew calls are removed.