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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:5638 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2020-12-21
Updated:
2020-12-21

RHSA-2020:5638 - Security Advisory

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Synopsis

Important: libpq security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

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Topic

An update for libpq is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

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

The libpq package provides the PostgreSQL client library, which allows client programs to connect to PostgreSQL servers.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: libpq (12.5). (BZ#1898225, BZ#1901562)

Security Fix(es):

  • postgresql: Reconnection can downgrade connection security settings (CVE-2020-25694)
  • postgresql: psql's \gset allows overwriting specially treated variables (CVE-2020-25696)

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

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

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1894423 - CVE-2020-25694 postgresql: Reconnection can downgrade connection security settings
  • BZ - 1894430 - CVE-2020-25696 postgresql: psql's \gset allows overwriting specially treated variables

CVEs

  • CVE-2020-25694
  • CVE-2020-25696

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0

SRPM
libpq-12.5-1.el8_0.src.rpm SHA-256: 063fd545545716d99a6c005f32307d628538a69848f99f2e08c55c1e6271cf14
ppc64le
libpq-12.5-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: bc87306d0d7ecb24bea34a428c0be7754734d6f8117087414421eb12f9e09be9
libpq-debuginfo-12.5-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: db0dc37489b396a794eb07f5fa0fa48138e5be6a5f8d8845b320f589b5c9a1c7
libpq-debugsource-12.5-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: c9600504352c9d0139d3a2f0e159bdc3b4941e6b0e12af214da1a5065db1e013
libpq-devel-12.5-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: d0007ee07fa97528f0b9eeb9baf340734d437ad2654d1ef73402764424e51e3f
libpq-devel-debuginfo-12.5-1.el8_0.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 6c1da85fda4309360c9cee46e85b9227852ee913299b8cc46a84fd3b084c4107

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.0

SRPM
libpq-12.5-1.el8_0.src.rpm SHA-256: 063fd545545716d99a6c005f32307d628538a69848f99f2e08c55c1e6271cf14
x86_64
libpq-12.5-1.el8_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: d4cc6eaa21f64e5ea5c132dd791ab4c7cd28ae44c11ea8d4eaae7dc95d8bbdb1
libpq-12.5-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 0b2bb5f0564f8199dd5afc88b1f02365882d747698faf4e728982cdb1fbd0786
libpq-debuginfo-12.5-1.el8_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: 5cf67017682490896b886d463ae881044a6fef46b75e5e6440ec7e1b5fa00a17
libpq-debuginfo-12.5-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 52e2eecba91b3c18fcc3e68b0aa48a25c038e7be6517d2f5895f2ddcbabdf9ac
libpq-debugsource-12.5-1.el8_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: ee59193246dc83d6cac90fe782370222757f9ae2c479684366b9c44d974f892e
libpq-debugsource-12.5-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: fdc26fd2b17b6cb9ceca50c8bcfbad591c46d3c516ea01c930c5ef41c257c547
libpq-devel-12.5-1.el8_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: 17eecc1780ec0a6b4f4c1fcb3c28c6e7174196cde678366a1994e4705be95433
libpq-devel-12.5-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 651e775b372d2c460930ead4c7e2efe3285d3f844569a5384512872cc2fa0ca9
libpq-devel-debuginfo-12.5-1.el8_0.i686.rpm SHA-256: 2f58324ff3740cc1e0acb26a30c4192d7319d7c454c909e836a262a572767ecf
libpq-devel-debuginfo-12.5-1.el8_0.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d1a602b01f2fc44ef7b2185f0fb6d297ee9a0bf2c8174ae5e59c24cbc2a46ee7

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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