USN-3818-1

It was discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled certain trigger definitions when running pgupgrade or pgdump. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary SQL statements with superuser privileges.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / postgresql-10

Package

Name: postgresql-10
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/postgresql-10@10.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

10.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1

Affected versions

10.*

10.1-1

10.1-2

10.2-1

10.3-1

10.4-0ubuntu0.18.04

10.5-0ubuntu0.18.04

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libecpg-compat3",
            "binary_version": "10.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libecpg-dev",
            "binary_version": "10.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libecpg6",
            "binary_version": "10.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpgtypes3",
            "binary_version": "10.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpq-dev",
            "binary_version": "10.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpq5",
            "binary_version": "10.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "postgresql-10",
            "binary_version": "10.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "postgresql-client-10",
            "binary_version": "10.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "postgresql-doc-10",
            "binary_version": "10.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "postgresql-plperl-10",
            "binary_version": "10.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "postgresql-plpython-10",
            "binary_version": "10.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "postgresql-plpython3-10",
            "binary_version": "10.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "postgresql-pltcl-10",
            "binary_version": "10.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "postgresql-server-dev-10",
            "binary_version": "10.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-3818-1.json"

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2018-16850",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score": "medium",
                    "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS"
}