RHSA-2018:2511 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for rh-postgresql95-postgresql is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system (DBMS).

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-postgresql95-postgresql (9.5.14). (BZ#1612671)

Security Fix(es):

• postgresql: Certain host connection parameters defeat client-side security defenses (CVE-2018-10915)
• postgresql: Missing authorization and memory disclosure in INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE statements (CVE-2018-10925)
• postgresql: Memory disclosure in JSON functions (CVE-2017-15098)
• postgresql: pg_upgrade creates file of sensitive metadata under prevailing umask (CVE-2018-1053)
• postgresql: Uncontrolled search path element in pg_dump and other client applications (CVE-2018-1058)
• postgresql: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE fails to enforce SELECT privileges (CVE-2017-15099)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Red Hat would like to thank the PostgreSQL project for reporting CVE-2018-10915, CVE-2018-10925, CVE-2017-15098, CVE-2018-1053, and CVE-2017-15099. Upstream acknowledges Andrew Krasichkov as the original reporter of CVE-2018-10915; David Rowley as the original reporter of CVE-2017-15098; Tom Lane as the original reporter of CVE-2018-1053; and Dean Rasheed as the original reporter of CVE-2017-15099.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

If the postgresql service is running, it will be automatically restarted after installing this update.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1508820 - CVE-2017-15098 postgresql: Memory disclosure in JSON functions
• BZ - 1508823 - CVE-2017-15099 postgresql: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE fails to enforce SELECT privileges
• BZ - 1539619 - CVE-2018-1053 postgresql: pg_upgrade creates file of sensitive metadata under prevailing umask
• BZ - 1547044 - CVE-2018-1058 postgresql: Uncontrolled search path element in pg_dump and other client applications
• BZ - 1609891 - CVE-2018-10915 postgresql: Certain host connection parameters defeat client-side security defenses
• BZ - 1612619 - CVE-2018-10925 postgresql: Missing authorization and memory disclosure in INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE statements

CVEs

• CVE-2017-15098
• CVE-2017-15099
• CVE-2018-1053
• CVE-2018-1058
• CVE-2018-10915
• CVE-2018-10925

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important