RHSA-2023:4313 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for rh-postgresql12-postgresql is now available for Red Hat Software Collections.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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).

Security Fix(es):

• postgresql: schema_element defeats protective search_path changes (CVE-2023-2454)
• postgresql: row security policies disregard user ID changes after inlining. (CVE-2023-2455)

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

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 x86_64
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for System Z) 1 for RHEL 7 s390x
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 1 for RHEL 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Software Collections (for RHEL Workstation) 1 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2207568 - CVE-2023-2454 postgresql: schema_element defeats protective search_path changes
• BZ - 2207569 - CVE-2023-2455 postgresql: row security policies disregard user ID changes after inlining.

CVEs

• CVE-2023-2454
• CVE-2023-2455

References

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