posted Sep 17, 2010, 2:32 PM by Sachchida Ojha
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list which major releases they were present in, and which version they
are fixed in for each. If the vulnerability was exploitable without a
valid login, this is also stated. | Reference | Affected
versions | Fixed in | Component | Description |
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CVE-2006-2314
FAQ | 8.1, 8.0, 7.4, 7.3 | 8.1.4, 8.0.8, 7.4.13, 7.3.15 | core server | The
widely-used practice of escaping ASCII single quote "'" by turning it
into "\'" is unsafe when operating in multibyte encodings that allow
0x5c (ASCII code for backslash) as the trailing byte of a multibyte
character. | CVE-2006-2313
FAQ | 8.1, 8.0, 7.4, 7.3 | 8.1.4, 8.0.8, 7.4.13, 7.3.15 | core server | An
attacker able to submit crafted strings to an application that will
embed those strings in SQL commands can use invalidly-encoded multibyte
characters to bypass standard string-escaping methods, resulting in
possible SQL injection. | CVE-2006-0553
Announcement | 8.1 | 8.1.3 | core server | A
bug in the handling of SET ROLE allows escalation of privileges to any
other database user, including superuser. A valid login is required to
exploit this vulnerability. | CVE-2006-0678
Announcement | 8.0, 7.4, 7.3 | 8.0.7, 7.4.12, 7.3.14 | core server | A
bug in the handling of SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION can cause a backend
crash in Assert enabled builds. This will cause the postmaster to
restart all backend, resulting in a denial of service. A valid login is
required to exploit this vulnerability. | CVE-2006-0105
Announcement | 8.1, 8.0 | 8.1.2, 8.0.6 | core server, win32 only | On
Windows only, the postmaster will exit if too many connection requests
arrive simultaneously. This does not affect existing database
connections, but will prevent new connections from being established
until the postmaster is manually restarted. | | Announcement | 8.1, 8.0, 7.4, 7.3 | 8.1.2, 8.0.6, 7.4.11, 7.3.13 | contrib module | There
is a signedness bug in Openwall gen_salt code that pgcrypto uses. This
makes the salt space for md5 and xdes algorithms a lot smaller than it
should be. This only affects the gen_salt() function with md5 or xdes. | | Release notes | 8.0, 7.4 | 8.0.3, 7.4.8 | core server | Calling
COALESCE() with two NULL parameters would cause the current backend to
crash, causing a denial of service. A valid login is required to exploit
this vulnerability. | CVE-2005-1410
Announcement | 8.0, 7.4 | 8.0.3, 7.4.8 | contrib module | The
tsearch2 contrib module declares several functions as internal even
though they don't take an internal argument. This allows attackers to
cause a denial of service and may possibly have other impacts. A valid
login is required to exploit this vulnerability.
Note! See the announcement for special upgrade instructions. | CVE-2005-1409
Announcement | 8.0, 7.4, 7.3 | 8.0.3, 7.4.8, 7.3.10 | core server | Public
EXECUTE access is given to certain character conversion functions that
are not designed to be safe against malicious arguments. This can cause
at least a denial of service. A valid login is required to exploit this
vulnerability.
Note! See the announcement for special upgrade instructions. | | CVE-2005-0247 | 8.0, 7.4 | 8.0.2, 7.4.8 | core server | Multiple
buffer overflows in the PL/PGSQL parser may allow attackers to execute
arbitrary code. A valid login is required to exploit this vulnerability. | | CVE-2005-0246 | 8.0, 7.4, 7.3 | 8.0.1, 7.4.7, 7.3.9 | contrib module | The
intagg contrib module allows attackers to cause a denial of service. A
valid login is required to exploit this vulnerability. | | CVE-2005-0245 | 8.0, 7.4, 7.3 | 8.0.1, 7.4.7, 7.3.10 | core server | Multiple
buffer overflows in the PL/PGSQL parser may allow attackers to execute
arbitrary code. A valid login is required to exploit this vulnerability. | | CVE-2005-0244 | 8.0, 7.4, 7.3 | 8.0.1, 7.4.7, 7.3.9 | core server | EXECUTE permissions are not properly checked when creating aggregates. A valid login is required to exploit this vulnerability. | | CVE-2005-0227 | 8.0, 7.4, 7.3 | 8.0.1, 7.4.7, 7.3.9 | core server | Any
database user is permitted to load arbitrary shared libraries using the
LOAD command. A valid login is required to exploit this vulnerability. | | CVE-2005-0977 | 7.4, 7.3 | 7.4.6, 7.3.8 | client contrib module | Contrib script make_oidjoins_check uses unsafe temporary files. This script is not a user-facing script. | | Release notes | 7.4 | 7.4.3 | core server | A
buffer overrun vulnerability exists in the enlargeStringInfo function
and can be triggered by injecting bogus data in the datastream of an
existing connection. A valid login is required to exploit this
vulnerability. | | Release notes | 7.3 | 7.3.6 | core server | A
patch applied in 7.3.3 to fix a corner case in rule permissions checks
turns out to have disabled rule-related permissions checks in many
not-so-corner cases. This would for example allow users to insert into
views they weren't supposed to have permission to insert into. A valid
login is required to exploit this vulnerability. | | CVE-2003-0901 | 7.3 | 7.3.4 | core server | A
buffer overflow in the to_ascii function allows attackers to execute
arbitrary code. A valid login is required to exploit this vulnerability. | | Release notes | 7.3 | 7.3.2 | core server | The
fastpath function interface did not properly check for permissions
before executing a function. A valid login is required to exploit this
vulnerability. |
The following component references are used in the above table: | Component | Description |
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| core server | This vulnerability exists in the core server procuct. | | client | This vulnerability exists in a client library or client application only. | | contrib module | This
vulnerability exists in a contrib modules. Contrib modules are not
installed by default when PostgreSQL is installed from source. They may
be installed by binary packages. | | client contrib module | This vulnerability exists in a contrib module used on the client only. |
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