Bug 582615 (CVE-2010-1169)

Summary: CVE-2010-1169 PostgreSQL: PL/Perl Intended restriction bypass
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: kvolny, mmaslano, security-response-team, tgl, vdanen
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Bug Depends On: 586056, 586057, 586058, 586059, 586060, 586061, 589541, 589543, 593032, 593033, 636659, 812237, 812245    
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Description Jan Lieskovsky 2010-04-15 12:49:14 UTC
A flaw was found in the way the PostgreSQL enforced permission checks
on scripts written in PL/Perl. Once the PL/Perl procedural language
was registered on particular database, a remote, authenticated user,
privileged to create databases, running a specially-crafted PL/Perl
script, could use this flaw to bypass intended PL/Perl trusted mode
restrictions, allowing them to run arbitrary Perl scripts with the
privileges of the database server.

References:
  [1] PostgreSQL PL/Perl procedural language manual page:
      http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/plperl.html
  [2] PostgreSQL Trusted and Untrusted PL/Perl mode manual page:
      http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/plperl-trusted.html

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank Tim Bunce for responsibly reporting
this issue.

Comment 7 Jan Lieskovsky 2010-04-21 16:17:04 UTC
This is CVE-2010-1169.

Comment 16 Vincent Danen 2010-05-17 16:41:11 UTC
This is public now:

http://www.postgresql.org/support/security.html

Comment 20 Fedora Update System 2010-05-17 19:08:42 UTC
postgresql-8.4.4-1.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/postgresql-8.4.4-1.fc12

Comment 21 Fedora Update System 2010-05-17 19:08:51 UTC
postgresql-8.3.11-1.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/postgresql-8.3.11-1.fc11

Comment 22 Fedora Update System 2010-05-17 19:09:01 UTC
postgresql-8.4.4-1.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/postgresql-8.4.4-1.fc13

Comment 23 Fedora Update System 2010-05-18 21:45:01 UTC
postgresql-8.4.4-1.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 24 Fedora Update System 2010-05-18 21:53:26 UTC
postgresql-8.4.4-1.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 25 Fedora Update System 2010-05-18 21:57:48 UTC
postgresql-8.3.11-1.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 26 Tomas Hoger 2010-05-19 07:37:22 UTC
Upstream commit (head/master branch):
http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=5d17e8167a82e646124617c1e00004c73aa40afc

Comment 27 errata-xmlrpc 2010-05-19 15:48:39 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3

Via RHSA-2010:0427 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0427.html

Comment 28 errata-xmlrpc 2010-05-19 16:15:59 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4

Via RHSA-2010:0428 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0428.html

Comment 29 errata-xmlrpc 2010-05-19 16:30:01 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2010:0429 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0429.html

Comment 30 errata-xmlrpc 2010-05-19 17:01:46 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2010:0430 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0430.html

Comment 31 Vincent Danen 2010-09-22 20:16:13 UTC
Created sepostgresql tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 636659]