USN-3476-1

Dawid Golunski discovered that the postgresql-common pg_ctlcluster script incorrectly handled symlinks. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-1255)

It was discovered that the postgresql-common helper scripts incorrectly handled symlinks. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. (CVE-2017-8806)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / postgresql-common

Package

Name: postgresql-common
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/postgresql-common@154ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

154ubuntu1.1

Affected versions

Other

148

150

151

152

153

153bzr1

154

154ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability":  "No subscription required",
    "binaries":  [
        {
            "binary_name":  "postgresql",
            "binary_version":  "9.3+154ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "postgresql-client",
            "binary_version":  "9.3+154ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "postgresql-client-common",
            "binary_version":  "154ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "postgresql-common",
            "binary_version":  "154ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "postgresql-contrib",
            "binary_version":  "9.3+154ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "postgresql-server-dev-all",
            "binary_version":  "154ubuntu1.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves":  [
        {
            "id":  "CVE-2016-1255",
            "severity":  [
                {
                    "score":  "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type":  "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score":  "medium",
                    "type":  "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id":  "CVE-2017-8806",
            "severity":  [
                {
                    "score":  "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
                    "type":  "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score":  "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N",
                    "type":  "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score":  "medium",
                    "type":  "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem":  "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3476-1.json"

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / postgresql-common