RHSA-2025:1720 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for libpq is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support.

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.

Security Fix(es):

• postgresql: PostgreSQL quoting APIs miss neutralizing quoting syntax in text that fails encoding validation (CVE-2025-1094)

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 - AUS 8.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2345548 - CVE-2025-1094 postgresql: PostgreSQL quoting APIs miss neutralizing quoting syntax in text that fails encoding validation

CVEs

• CVE-2025-1094

References

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