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Category Security Release Phase Resolved 6879165, 6879166, 6784052, 6888545 Product Solaris 10 Operating System OpenSolaris Date of Workaround Release 26-Oct-2009 Date of Resolved Release 02-Nov-2009 Security vulnerabilities affecting the PostgreSQL software: 1. Impact Security vulnerabilities affecting the PostgreSQL software shipped with Solaris may allow an authenticated PostgreSQL user to cause a denial of service (DoS) to the PostgreSQL server by "re-LOAD-ing" libraries from a certain plugins directory. However, the PostgreSQL versions shipped with Solaris do not include any plugins. In addition, an issue with the privileges for RESET ROLE and RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION operations may allow any authenticated users to gain extra privileges. These issues are described in the following documents: Official PostgreSQL announcement at: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1135 CVE-2009-3229 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3229 CVE-2009-3230 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3230 Note: PostgreSQL is not compiled with LDAP support on Solaris. Solaris is not affected with CVE-2009-3231. 2. Contributing Factors This issue can occur in the following releases: SPARC Platform
Note 2: A user exploiting this vulnerability must have an account on the PostgreSQL server. Note 3: The issues described in CVE-2009-3229 affects PostgreSQL versions 8.2.x prior to 8.2.14, 8.3.x prior to 8.3.8, and versions 8.4.x prior to 8.4.1. Note 4: The issues described in CVE-2009-3230 affects PostgreSQL 7.4.x prior to 7.4.26, 8.0.x prior to 8.0.22, 8.1.x prior to 8.1.18, 8.2.x prior to 8.2.14, 8.3.x prior to 8.3.8, and versions 8.4.x prior to 8.4.1. Note 5: PostgreSQL 8.1 (SUNWpostgr), 8.2 (packages beginning with SUNWpostgr-82) and 8.3 (packages beginning with SUNWpostgr-83) can be installed at the same time and are separately impacted by these vulnerabilities. Note 6: Only systems with PostgreSQL plugins installed are impacted by CVE-2009-3229 issue. To determine if there are any plugins installed, execute the following command: for PostgreSQL 8.2: $ ls -l /usr/postgres/8.2/lib/pluginsfor PostgreSQL 8.3: $ ls -l /usr/postgres/8.3/lib/pluginsTo determine if a version of PostgreSQL is installed, the following command can be used: $ pkginfo | grep SUNWpostgrTo determine if PostgreSQL is running on a server, the following command can be run as the user "postgres" (or the "root" user): for PostgreSQL 8.1: $ pg_ctl status -D /var/lib/pgsql/data/for PostgreSQL 8.2: $ /usr/postgres/8.2/bin/pg_ctl status -D /var/postgres/8.2/data/for PostgreSQL 8.3: $ /usr/postgres/8.3/bin/pg_ctl status -D /var/postgres/8.3/data/or (where applicable): $ svcs -a | grep postgresql3. Symptoms If the described issue has been exploited to cause a Denial of Service (DoS), the postgres(1) process may crash, potentially leaving a core file. 4. Workaround There is no workaround for this issues. Please see the Resolution section below. 5. Resolution This issue is addressed in the following releases: SPARC Platform
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