CVE-2015-5288

These are all security issues fixed in the postgresql93-9.3.15-1.1 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

These are all security issues fixed in the libecpg6-32bit-9.5.4-1.2 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

This update delivers PostgreSQL 9.4.5 to the SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 codebase.

Major enhancements:

• Security and bugfix release 9.4.5:

  • CVE-2015-5289, bsc#949670: json or jsonb input values constructed from arbitrary user input can crash the PostgreSQL server and cause a denial of service.
  • CVE-2015-5288, bsc#949669: The crypt() function included with the optional pgCrypto extension could be exploited to read a few additional bytes of memory. No working exploit for this issue has been developed.

• Add jsonb, a more capable and efficient data type for storing JSON data

• Add new SQL command ALTER SYSTEM for changing postgresql.conf configuration file entries

• Reduce lock strength for some ALTER TABLE commands

• Allow materialized views to be refreshed without blocking concurrent reads

• Add support for logical decoding of WAL data, to allow database changes to be streamed out in a customizable format

• Allow background worker processes to be dynamically registered, started and terminated

• For the full release notse, see: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-4-5.html

• Move systemd related stuff and user creation to postgresql-init (bsc#950486)

• Remove some obsolete %suse_version conditionals

• Adjust build time dependencies.

• Fix some more rpmlint warnings.

• Relax dependency on libpq to major version.

• Make sure that plpgsql.h gets installed, because pldebugger needs it.

• Move ~postgres/.bash_profile to postgresql-server to avoid a file conflict between the versioned server packages.

Full release notes can be found here: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4.html

The existing client libraries libecpg6 and libpq5 are now taken from the postgresql94 build instgead of the postgresql93 build.

The PostreSQL database postgresql93 was updated to the bugfix release 9.3.10:

Security issues fixed:

• CVE-2015-5289, bsc#949670: json or jsonb input values constructed from arbitrary user input can crash the PostgreSQL server and cause a denial of service.
• CVE-2015-5288, bsc#949669: The crypt() function included with the optional pgCrypto extension could be exploited to read a few additional bytes of memory. No working exploit for this issue has been developed.

For the full release notes, see: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-3-10.html

Other bugs fixed:

• Move systemd related stuff and user creation to postgresql-init.
• Remove some obsolete %suse_version conditionals.
• Relax dependency on libpq to major version.
• Fix possible failure to recover from an inconsistent database state. See full release notes for details.
• Fix rare failure to invalidate relation cache init file.
• Avoid deadlock between incoming sessions and CREATE/DROP DATABASE.
• Improve planner's cost estimates for semi-joins and anti-joins with inner indexscans
• For the full release notes for 9.3.9 see: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release-9-3-9.html

This update of postgresql91 to 9.1.19 fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2015-5288: crypt() (pgCrypto extension) couldi potentially be exploited to read a few additional bytes of memory (bsc#949669)

Also contains all changes and bugfixes in the upstream 9.1.19 release: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-19.html

This update of postgresql94 to 9.4.5 fixes the following issues:

• CVE-2015-5289: json or jsonb input values constructed from arbitrary user input could have crashed the PostgreSQL server and caused a denial of service (bsc#949670)
• CVE-2015-5288: crypt() (pgCrypto extension) couldi potentially be exploited to read a few additional bytes of memory (bsc#949669)

Also contains all changes and bugfixes in the upstream 9.4.5 release: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-4-5.html

This update for postgresql94 fixes the following issues:

• Security and bugfix release 9.4.6:

  • *** IMPORTANT *** Users of version 9.4 will need to reindex any jsonb_path_ops indexes they have created, in order to fix a persistent issue with missing index entries.
  • Fix infinite loops and buffer-overrun problems in regular expressions (CVE-2016-0773, bsc#966436).
  • Fix regular-expression compiler to handle loops of constraint arcs (CVE-2007-4772).
  • Prevent certain PL/Java parameters from being set by non-superusers (CVE-2016-0766, bsc#966435).
  • Fix many issues in pg_dump with specific object types
  • Prevent over-eager pushdown of HAVING clauses for GROUPING SETS
  • Fix deparsing error with ON CONFLICT ... WHERE clauses
  • Fix tableoid errors for postgres_fdw
  • Prevent floating-point exceptions in pgbench
  • Make \det search Foreign Table names consistently
  • Fix quoting of domain constraint names in pg_dump
  • Prevent putting expanded objects into Const nodes
  • Allow compile of PL/Java on Windows
  • Fix 'unresolved symbol' errors in PL/Python execution
  • Allow Python2 and Python3 to be used in the same database
  • Add support for Python 3.5 in PL/Python
  • Fix issue with subdirectory creation during initdb
  • Make pg_ctl report status correctly on Windows
  • Suppress confusing error when using pg_receivexlog with older servers
  • Multiple documentation corrections and additions
  • Fix erroneous hash calculations in gin_extract_jsonb_path()

• For the full release notse, see: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-6.html

• Security and bugfix release 9.4.5:

  • CVE-2015-5289, bsc#949670: json or jsonb input values constructed from arbitrary user input can crash the PostgreSQL server and cause a denial of service.
  • CVE-2015-5288, bsc#949669: The crypt() function included with the optional pgCrypto extension could be exploited to read a few additional bytes of memory. No working exploit for this issue has been developed.

• For the full release notse, see: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-4-5.html

• Relax dependency on libpq to major version.

The crypt function in contrib/pgcrypto in PostgreSQL before 9.0.23, 9.1.x before 9.1.19, 9.2.x before 9.2.14, 9.3.x before 9.3.10, and 9.4.x before 9.4.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (server crash) or read arbitrary server memory via a "too-short" salt.

Josh Kupershmidt discovered the pgCrypto extension could expose several bytes of server memory if the crypt() function was provided a too-short salt. An attacker could use this flaw to read private data. (CVE-2015-5288)

Oskari Saarenmaa discovered that the json and jsonb handlers could exhaust available stack space. An attacker could use this flaw to perform a denial of service attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.04. (CVE-2015-5289)