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

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

154ubuntu1.1

Affected versions

Other

148

150

151

152

153

153bzr1

154

154ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

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

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
    "cves": [
        {
            "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-2016-1255"
        },
        {
            "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"
                }
            ],
            "id": "CVE-2017-8806"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / postgresql-common