Bug 1065220 – CVE-2014-0061 postgresql: privilege escalation via procedural language validator functions

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Bug 1065220 - (CVE-2014-0061) CVE-2014-0061 postgresql: privilege escalation via procedural language validator functions

Summary:	CVE-2014-0061 postgresql: privilege escalation via procedural language valida...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2014-0061

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1065839 1065840 1065841 1065842 1065843 1065844 1065845 1065855 1065861 1069071 1069072
Blocks:	1065240 1095075
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Reported:	2014-02-14 02:11 EST by Murray McAllister
Modified:	2018-06-29 18:00 EDT (History)
CC List:	10 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2014:0211	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: postgresql84 and postgresql security update	2014-02-25 16:41:42 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2014:0221	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: postgresql92-postgresql security update	2014-02-27 18:23:11 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2014:0249	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: postgresql security update	2014-03-04 19:51:26 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2014:0469	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: cfme security, bug fix, and enhancement update	2014-05-12 18:12:35 EDT

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Description Murray McAllister 2014-02-14 02:11:24 EST

It was found that the procedural language (PLs) validator functions could possibly be leveraged for limited code execution. An authenticated database user could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges.

Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 5 Vincent Danen 2014-02-18 18:23:20 EST

This is now public:

https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/537cbd35c893e67a63c59bc636c3e888bd228bc7

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2014-02-25 11:44:06 EST

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:0211 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0211.html

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2014-02-27 13:23:28 EST

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for RHEL-6

Via RHSA-2014:0221 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0221.html

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2014-03-04 14:11:30 EST

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:0249 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0249.html

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2014-05-12 14:13:34 EDT

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  CloudForms Management Engine 5.x

Via RHSA-2014:0469 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0469.html

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