Package : postgresql-9.1
Vulnerability : several
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2013-1899 CVE-2013-1900 CVE-2013-1901
Debian Bug : 704479
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in PostgreSQL database server.
CVE-2013-1899
Mitsumasa Kondo and Kyotaro Horiguchi of NTT Open Source Software Center
discovered that it was possible for a connection request containing a
database name that begins with "-" to be crafted that can damage or destroy
files within a server's data directory. Anyone with access to the port the
PostgreSQL server listens on can initiate this request.
CVE-2013-1900
Random numbers generated by contrib/pgcrypto functions may be easy for
another database user to guess.
CVE-2013-1901
An unprivileged user could run commands that could interfere with
in-progress backups
For backports for the stable distribution (squeeze-backports), these
problems have been fixed in version 9.1.9-1~bpo60+1.
For the stable dist