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.
This issue did not affect the version of the postgresql package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. -- This issue did not affect the version of the postgresql84 package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. -- This issue did not affect the version of the postgresql package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. -- This issue affects the versions of the postgresql package, as shipped with Fedora release of 17 and 18.
Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank the PostgreSQL project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Noah Misch as the original issue reporter.
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.
Created postgresql tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 948312]
Upstream announcement: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1456/
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.
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.
Upstream commit: http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commitdiff;h=ce9ab88981495d975aade8fc664f99f68fc18e2b
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.