Debian: DSA 1311-1 Critical: PostgreSQL Privilege Escalation Fix Available
debian
June 17, 2007
It was discovered that the PostgreSQL database performs insufficient
validation of variables passed to privileged SQL statement called
"security definers", which could lead to SQ...
Summary
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in
version 7.4.17-0etch1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 7.4.17-1.
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 3.1 alias sarge
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Architecture independent components:
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