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...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-0061
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1065839 1065840 1065841 1065842 1065843 1065844 1065845 1065855 1065861 1069071 1069072
Blocks: 1065240 1095075
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Reported: 2014-02-14 07:11 UTC by Murray McAllister
Modified: 2023-05-12 02:27 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2021-10-20 10:43:03 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:0211 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: postgresql84 and postgresql security update 2014-02-25 21:41:42 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:0221 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: postgresql92-postgresql security update 2014-02-27 23:23:11 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:0249 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: postgresql security update 2014-03-05 00:51:26 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:0469 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: cfme security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2014-05-12 22:12:35 UTC

Description Murray McAllister 2014-02-14 07:11:24 UTC 
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 23:23:20 UTC 
This is now public:

https://github.com/postgres/postgres/commit/537cbd35c893e67a63c59bc636c3e888bd228bc7
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2014-02-25 16:44:06 UTC 
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 18:23:28 UTC 
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 19:11:30 UTC 
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 18:13:34 UTC 
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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