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TITLE:
PostgreSQL Denial of Service and Information Disclosure

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24033

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24033/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information, DoS

WHERE:
>From local network

SOFTWARE:
PostgreSQL 8.x
http://secunia.com/product/4587/
PostgreSQL 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/506/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in PostgreSQL, which can be
exploited by malicious users to gain knowledge of potentially
sensitive information and cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) An unspecified error can be used to suppress certain checks, which
ensure that SQL functions return the correct data type. This can be
exploited to crash the database backend or disclose potentially
sensitive information.

2) An unspecified error when changing the data type of a table column
can be exploited to crash the database backend or disclose potentially
sensitive information.

Vulnerability #1 is reported in versions 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2.
Vulnerability #2 is reported in 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 7.3 and 7.4.

SOLUTION:
Update to 8.2.2, 8.1.7, 8.0.11, 7.4.16, or 7.3.13.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.postgresql.org/support/security

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