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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-774-1 postgresql-common -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

01 Jan 2017

Affected Packages:

postgresql-common

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

No other external database security references currently available.

More information:

A security vulnerability and a data loss bug have been found in postgresql-common, Debian's PostgreSQL database cluster management tools.

• CVE-2016-1255

  Dawid Golunski discovered that a symlink in /var/log/postgresql/ could be used by the postgres system user to write to arbitrary files on the filesystem the next time PostgreSQL is started by root.

• #614374

  Rafał Kupka discovered that pg_upgradecluster did not properly upgrade databases that are owned by a non-login role (or group).

For Debian 7 Wheezy, these problems have been fixed in version 134wheezy5.

We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql-common packages.

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