While here, fix flo's typo...
update to all current versions of the PostgreSQL database system, including versions 9.2.4, 9.1.9, 9.0.13, and 8.4.17. This update fixes a high-exposure security vulnerability in versions 9.0 and later. All users of the affected versions are strongly urged to apply the update *immediately*. A major security issue (for versions 9.x only) fixed in this release, [CVE-2013-1899](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1899), makes it possible for a connection request containing a database name that begins with "-" to be crafted that can damage or destroy files within a server's data directory. Anyone with access to the port the PostgreSQL server listens on can initiate this request. This issue was discovered by Mitsumasa Kondo and Kyotaro Horiguchi of NTT Open Source Software Center. Two lesser security fixes are also included in this release: [CVE-2013-1900](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1900), wherein random numbers generated by contrib/pgcrypto functions may be easy for another database user to guess (all versions), and [CVE-2013-1901](http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1901), which mistakenly allows an unprivileged user to run commands that could interfere with in-progress backups (for versions 9.x only). Approved by: portmgr (bdrewery) URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1456/ Security: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1899 Security: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1900 Security: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-1901
This update fixes a denial-of-service (DOS) vulnerability. All users should update their PostgreSQL installations as soon as possible. The security issue fixed in this release, CVE-2013-0255, allows a previously authenticated user to crash the server by calling an internal function with invalid arguments. URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1446/ Security: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0255
versions of the PostgreSQL database system, including versions 9.2.2, 9.1.7, 9.0.11, 8.4.15, and 8.3.22. Users of PostgreSQL Hot Standby replication should update at the next possible opportunity. Other users should update at their next maintenance window. Deprecate the 8.3.22 version, since it is near end-of-life. URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1430/ Feature safe: yes
This update fixes critical issues for major versions 9.1 and 9.2, and users running those versions should apply it as soon as possible. URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1416/
wait before fetching etc Suggested by: ohauer Discussed with: girgen While here, fix package for postgresql92-server
of the PostgreSQL database system, including versions 9.1.5, 9.0.9, 8.4.13 and 8.3.20. This update patches security holes associated with libxml2 and libxslt, similar to those affecting other open source projects. All users are urged to update their installations at the first available opportunity. This security release fixes a vulnerability in the built-in XML functionality, and a vulnerability in the XSLT functionality supplied by the optional XML2 extension. Both vulnerabilities allow reading of arbitrary files by any authenticated database user, and the XSLT vulnerability allows writing files as well. The fixes cause limited backwards compatibility issues. These issues correspond to the following two vulnerabilities: CVE-2012-3488: PostgreSQL insecure use of libxslt CVE-2012-3489: PostgreSQL insecure use of libxml2 This release also contains several fixes to version 9.1, and a smaller number of fixes to older versions, including: Updates and corrections to time zone data Multiple documentation updates and corrections Add limit on max_wal_senders Fix dependencies generated during ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT USING INDEX. Correct behavior of unicode conversions for PL/Python Fix WITH attached to a nested set operation (UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT). Fix syslogger so that log_truncate_on_rotation works in the first rotation. Only allow autovacuum to be auto-canceled by a directly blocked process. Improve fsync request queue operation Prevent corner-case core dump in rfree(). Fix Walsender so that it responds correctly to timeouts and deadlocks Several PL/Perl fixes for encoding-related issues Make selectivity operators use the correct collation Prevent unsuitable slaves from being selected for synchronous replication Make REASSIGN OWNED work on extensions as well Fix race condition with ENUM comparisons Make NOTIFY cope with out-of-disk-space Fix memory leak in ARRAY subselect queries Reduce data loss at replication failover Fix behavior of subtransactions with Hot Standby
active branches of the PostgreSQL database system, including versions 9.1.4,
9.0.8, 8.4.12 and 8.3.19.
Users of the crypt(text, text) function with DES encryption in the optional
pg_crypto module should upgrade their installations immediately, if you have'nt
already updated since the port was patched on May 30. All other database
administrators are urged to upgrade your version of PostgreSQL at the
next scheduled downtime.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1398/
Security: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2143
Fix incorrect password transformation in contrib/pgcryptoâs DES crypt() function
This was fixed in a patch release for the FreeBSD ports on May 30.
Security: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2655
Ignore SECURITY DEFINER and SET attributes for a procedural languageâs call handle
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1397/ With hat: pgsql