Security update for postgresql93

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:1264-1
Rating: moderate
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2015-3166 ( NVD ): 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • CVE-2015-3167 ( NVD ): 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12

An update that solves three vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description:

PostgreSQL was updated to the security and bugfix release 9.3.8 including 9.3.7.

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2015-3165, bsc#931972: Avoid possible crash when client disconnects just before the authentication timeout expires.
  • CVE-2015-3166, bsc#931973: Consistently check for failure of the printf() family of functions.
  • CVE-2015-3167, bsc#931974: In contrib/pgcrypto, uniformly report decryption failures as "Wrong key or corrupt data"

Bugs fixed:

  • Protect against wraparound of multixact member IDs.
  • Avoid failures while fsync'ing data directory during crash restart.
  • Fix pg_get_functiondef() to show functions' LEAKPROOF property, if set.

  • Allow libpq to use TLS protocol versions beyond v1.

  • For the full release notes, see the following two URLs http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release-9-3-8.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release-9-3-7.html

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-328=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2015-328=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-328=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-328=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 (x86_64)
    • libpq5-32bit-9.3.8-8.1
    • postgresql93-debugsource-9.3.8-8.1
    • postgresql93-debuginfo-9.3.8-8.1
    • libpq5-debuginfo-32bit-9.3.8-8.1
    • libecpg6-9.3.8-8.1
    • libpq5-debuginfo-9.3.8-8.1
    • postgresql93-9.3.8-8.1
    • libecpg6-debuginfo-9.3.8-8.1
    • postgresql93-libs-debugsource-9.3.8-8.1
    • libpq5-9.3.8-8.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • postgresql93-libs-debugsource-9.3.8-8.1
    • postgresql93-devel-9.3.8-8.1
    • postgresql93-devel-debuginfo-9.3.8-8.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • postgresql93-debugsource-9.3.8-8.1
    • postgresql93-debuginfo-9.3.8-8.1
    • libecpg6-9.3.8-8.1
    • postgresql93-server-9.3.8-8.1
    • postgresql93-server-debuginfo-9.3.8-8.1
    • libpq5-debuginfo-9.3.8-8.1
    • postgresql93-contrib-debuginfo-9.3.8-8.1
    • postgresql93-9.3.8-8.1
    • libecpg6-debuginfo-9.3.8-8.1
    • postgresql93-libs-debugsource-9.3.8-8.1
    • libpq5-9.3.8-8.1
    • postgresql93-contrib-9.3.8-8.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (noarch)
    • postgresql93-docs-9.3.8-8.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (s390x x86_64)
    • libpq5-32bit-9.3.8-8.1
    • libpq5-debuginfo-32bit-9.3.8-8.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 (x86_64)
    • libpq5-32bit-9.3.8-8.1
    • postgresql93-debugsource-9.3.8-8.1
    • postgresql93-debuginfo-9.3.8-8.1
    • libpq5-debuginfo-32bit-9.3.8-8.1
    • libecpg6-9.3.8-8.1
    • postgresql93-server-9.3.8-8.1
    • postgresql93-server-debuginfo-9.3.8-8.1
    • libpq5-debuginfo-9.3.8-8.1
    • postgresql93-contrib-debuginfo-9.3.8-8.1
    • postgresql93-9.3.8-8.1
    • libecpg6-debuginfo-9.3.8-8.1
    • postgresql93-libs-debugsource-9.3.8-8.1
    • libpq5-9.3.8-8.1
    • postgresql93-contrib-9.3.8-8.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 (noarch)
    • postgresql93-docs-9.3.8-8.1

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