Bug 929328 (CVE-2013-1901)

Summary:	CVE-2013-1901 postgresql: Improper user privilege check for on-line backups
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bdunne, jfrey, jrafanie, kseifried, security-response-team, tgl
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Reopened, Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	PostgreSQL 9.1.9, PostgreSQL 9.2.4	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2013-04-08 17:46:39 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	947206, 948312
Bug Blocks:	929332

Description Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-29 16:49:02 UTC

A security flaw was found in the way REPLICATION privilege checking mechanism of PostgreSQL, an advanced Object-Relational database management system, performed user privilege verification when preparing and finishing of on-line backup(s). An unprivileged database user could use this flaw to interfere with succesful creation of the routine backups.

Comment 2 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-29 16:54:24 UTC

This issue did not affect the version of the postgresql package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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This issue did not affect the version of the postgresql84 package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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This issue did not affect the version of the postgresql package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

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This issue affects the versions of the postgresql package, as shipped with Fedora release of 17 and 18.

Comment 3 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-29 16:55:38 UTC

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the PostgreSQL project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Noah Misch as the original issue reporter.

Comment 4 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-04-01 06:52:20 UTC

Statement:

Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of postgresql as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. This issue does not affect the version of postgresql84 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Comment 7 Vincent Danen 2013-04-04 14:43:06 UTC

Created postgresql tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 948312]

Comment 8 Tomas Hoger 2013-04-04 14:56:05 UTC

Upstream announcement:

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1456/

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2013-04-05 22:59:35 UTC

postgresql-9.2.4-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2013-04-05 23:11:48 UTC

postgresql-9.1.9-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Tomas Hoger 2013-04-09 08:14:46 UTC

Upstream commit:

http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=ce9ab88981495d975aade8fc664f99f68fc18e2b

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2013-04-20 19:59:40 UTC

postgresql-9.2.4-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.