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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 2491-1] postgresql-8.4 security update

    From Florian Weimer@1:229/2 to All on Sat Jun 9 14:00:02 2012
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2491-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Florian Weimer
    June 09, 2012 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package : postgresql-8.4
    Vulnerability : several
    Problem type : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE ID : CVE-2012-2143 CVE-2012-2655

    Two vulnerabilities were discovered in PostgreSQL, an SQL database
    server:

    CVE-2012-2143
    The crypt(text, text) function in the pgcrypto contrib module
    did not handle certain passwords correctly, ignoring
    characters after the first character which does not fall into
    the ASCII range.

    CVE-2012-2655
    SECURITY DEFINER and SET attributes for a call handler of a
    procedural language could crash the database server.

    In addition, this update contains reliability and stability fixes from
    the 8.4.12 upstream release.

    For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
    version 8.4.12-0squeeze1.

    For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
    version 8.4.12-1.

    We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql-8.4 packages.

    Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
    these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
    found at: http://www.debian.org/security/

    Mailing list: [email protected]
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