CVE-2009-3230 Information

Description

The core server component in PostgreSQL 8.4 before 8.4.1 8.3 before 8.3.8 8.2 before 8.2.14 8.1 before 8.1.18 8.0 before 8.0.22 and 7.4 before 7.4.26 does not use the appropriate privileges for the (1) RESET ROLE and (2) RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION operations which allows remote authenticated users to gain privileges. NOTE: this is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-6600.

Reference

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-www/2009-09/msg00024.php http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00001.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-10/msg00004.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=134124585221119&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/36660 http://secunia.com/advisories/36695 http://secunia.com/advisories/36727 http://secunia.com/advisories/36800 http://secunia.com/advisories/36837 http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-270408-1 http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2010-0012 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3-8.html http://www.postgresql.org/support/security.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509917/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36314 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-834-1 http://www.us.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1900 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2602 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522085 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10166 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00305.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00307.html