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TITLE:
PostgreSQL SSL Certificate Processing and Privilege Escalation
Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA37663

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/37663/

DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in PostgreSQL, which can be
exploited by malicious users to gain escalated privileges and by
malicious people to conduct spoofing attacks.

1) A vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing SSL
certificates containing NULL characters embedded in certain
certificate fields and can be exploited to spoof certificates for
legitimate domains.

2) A vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling session
state changes in an index function, which can be exploited to gain
escalated privileges.

This is related to:
SA28359
SA36660

The vulnerabilities are reported in versions 7.4, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3,
and 8.4.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 7.4.27, 8.0.23, 8.1.19, 8.2.15, 8.3.9, and 8.4.2.
http://www.postgresql.org/download

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

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

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA28359:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28359/

SA36660:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36660/

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