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High ALAS2-2018-1080 1 CVE

Important: postgresql security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Sep 20, 2018 · Updated Sep 25, 2018

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-10915: A vulnerability was found in libpq, the default PostgreSQL client library where libpq failed to properly reset its internal state between connections. If an affected version of libpq were used with "host" or "hostaddr" connection parameters from untrusted input, attackers could bypass client-side connection security features, obtain access to higher privileged connections or potentially cause other impact through SQL injection, by causing the PQescape() functions to malfunction. 1609891: CVE-2018-10915 postgresql: Certain host connection parameters defeat client-side security defenses

Fixed packages 13

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 postgresql 0:9.2.24-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 postgresql-contrib 0:9.2.24-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 postgresql-debuginfo 0:9.2.24-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 postgresql-devel 0:9.2.24-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 postgresql-docs 0:9.2.24-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 postgresql-libs 0:9.2.24-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 postgresql-plperl 0:9.2.24-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 postgresql-plpython 0:9.2.24-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 postgresql-pltcl 0:9.2.24-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 postgresql-server 0:9.2.24-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 postgresql-static 0:9.2.24-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 postgresql-test 0:9.2.24-1.amzn2.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2 postgresql-upgrade 0:9.2.24-1.amzn2.0.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-10915.html