Bug 1364002 (CVE-2016-5424) - CVE-2016-5424 postgresql: privilege escalation via crafted database and role names
Summary: CVE-2016-5424 postgresql: privilege escalation via crafted database and role ...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-5424
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1366346 1367640 1367704 1367705 1367707 1367708 1367709 1367710
Blocks: 1323912 1364007
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Reported: 2016-08-04 09:10 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:28 UTC (History)
19 users (show)

Fixed In Version: postgresql 9.5.4, postgresql 9.4.9, postgresql 9.3.14, postgresql 9.2.18, postgresql 9.1.23
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A flaw was found in the way PostgreSQL client programs handled database and role names containing newlines, carriage returns, double quotes, or backslashes. By crafting such an object name, roles with the CREATEDB or CREATEROLE option could escalate their privileges to superuser when a superuser next executes maintenance with a vulnerable client program.
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:57:18 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1781 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: rh-postgresql94-postgresql security update 2016-09-06 16:57:36 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1820 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: postgresql92-postgresql security update 2016-09-07 14:11:36 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1821 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: rh-postgresql95-postgresql security update 2016-09-07 13:53:27 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:2606 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: postgresql security and bug fix update 2016-11-03 12:13:40 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2425 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: rh-postgresql95-postgresql security update 2017-08-07 20:11:22 UTC

Description Martin Prpič 2016-08-04 09:10:29 UTC
It was found that PostgreSQL client programs mishandle database and role names containing newlines, carriage returns, double quotes, or backslashes. By crafting such an object name, roles with the CREATEDB or CREATEROLE option could escalate their privileges to superuser when a superuser next executes maintenance with a vulnerable program. Vulnerable programs include pg_dumpall, pg_upgrade, vacuumdb, reindexdb, and clusterdb.

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2016-08-04 09:10:47 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: the PostgreSQL project
Upstream: Nathan Bossart

Comment 2 Martin Prpič 2016-08-11 17:25:48 UTC
Public via:

https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1688/

Comment 3 Martin Prpič 2016-08-11 17:33:23 UTC
Created postgresql tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1366346]

Comment 14 Fedora Update System 2016-08-23 12:49:33 UTC
postgresql-9.5.4-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 15 Fedora Update System 2016-08-23 15:22:36 UTC
postgresql-9.4.9-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 16 Fedora Update System 2016-08-27 10:38:01 UTC
postgresql-9.5.4-1.fc25 has been pushed to the Fedora 25 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2016-08-31 05:48:34 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUS

Via RHSA-2016:1781 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1781.html

Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2016-09-07 09:54:58 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUS

Via RHSA-2016:1821 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1821.html

Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2016-09-07 10:13:07 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1 EUS

Via RHSA-2016:1820 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1820.html

Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-03 21:28:23 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2016:2606 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2606.html

Comment 23 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-07 16:12:39 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 5.7

Via RHSA-2017:2425 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2425


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