Debian 4.0 DSA 1309-1 Critical: PostgreSQL 8.1 Local Privilege Escalation
debian
June 16, 2007
It was discovered that the PostgreSQL database performs insufficient
validation of variables passed to privileged SQL statements, so called
"security definers", which could lead ...
Summary
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 8.1.9-0etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 8.1.9-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your PostgreSQL packages.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias etch
Size/MD5 checksum: 1168 b59fa9fd533196f15d59bf80223dab6d
Size/MD5 checksum: 33739 797d5f1137d4afabf77570fda433c63b
Size/MD5 checksum: 11422807 a77d87607ee8f264c7bc9581e9048bb2
Architecture independent components:
Size/MD5 ...
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