Bug 212360 (CVE-2006-5542) - CVE-2006-5540 New version fixes three different crash vulnerabilities
Summary: CVE-2006-5540 New version fixes three different crash vulnerabilities
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2006-5542
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tom Lane
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.664
Whiteboard:
Depends On: 212358
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-10-26 15:03 UTC by Lubomir Kundrak
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:19 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 8.1.6
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-01-11 16:47:09 UTC
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2006-10-26 15:03:04 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #212358 +++

Description of problem:

The three crash conditions are not considered critical vulnerabilities, because
all three require authenticated access to the database with the ability to run
ad-hoc queries, and none can be exploited for privilege escalation.

1.) Disallow aggregate functions in UPDATE commands, except within sub-SELECTs (Tom)
(The behavior of such an aggregate was unpredictable, and in 8.1.X could cause a
crash, so it has been disabled. The SQL standard does not allow this either.)

2.) Fix core dump when an untyped literal is taken as ANYARRAY

3.) Fix core dump in duration logging for extended query protocol when a COMMIT
or ROLLBACK is executed

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

1.) >=7.4.1, Affects RHEL 4.1, FC5, FC6
2.) >=8.1, Affects FC5, FC6
3.) >=8.1, Affects FC5, FC6

Additional info:

Here are commit messages with diffs:
1.) http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-10/msg00205.php
2.) http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-08/msg00277.php
3.) http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-06/msg00299.php

Comment 1 Tom Lane 2007-01-11 16:47:09 UTC
Updates are now released for FC5 and FC6.


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