RHSA-2026:0265 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for the postgresql:13 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On.

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: CREATE STATISTICS does not check for schema CREATE privilege (CVE-2025-12817)
• postgresql: libpq undersizes allocations, via integer wraparound (CVE-2025-12818)

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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support Extension 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2414825 - CVE-2025-12817 postgresql: CREATE STATISTICS does not check for schema CREATE privilege
• BZ - 2414826 - CVE-2025-12818 postgresql: libpq undersizes allocations, via integer wraparound

CVEs

• CVE-2025-12817
• CVE-2025-12818

References

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