[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: postgresql-9.1.3-1.fc16

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-2591
2012-02-28 09:15:01
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Name        : postgresql
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 9.1.3
Release     : 1.fc16
URL         : http://www.postgresql.org/
Summary     : PostgreSQL client programs
Description :
PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system (DBMS).
The base postgresql package contains the client programs that you'll need to
access a PostgreSQL DBMS server, as well as HTML documentation for the whole
system.  These client programs can be located on the same machine as the
PostgreSQL server, or on a remote machine that accesses a PostgreSQL server
over a network connection.  The PostgreSQL server can be found in the
postgresql-server sub-package.

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Update Information:

Update to latest Postgres releases --- resolves some security and data loss bugs
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-3.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0-7.html

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ChangeLog:

* Mon Feb 27 2012 Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> 9.1.3-1
- Update to PostgreSQL 9.1.3, for various fixes described at
  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-3.html
  including the fixes for CVE-2012-0866, CVE-2012-0867, CVE-2012-0868
Resolves: #797918
* Mon Jan  9 2012 Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> 9.1.2-2
- Make systemd unit file more user-friendly by resurrecting the old init
  script's checks for data directory presence and version match
Resolves: #771496
* Mon Dec  5 2011 Tom Lane <tgl at redhat.com> 9.1.2-1
- Update to PostgreSQL 9.1.2, for various fixes described at
  http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-2.html
* Wed Nov  2 2011 Honza Horak <hhorak at redhat.com> 9.1.1-2
- Create a symlink of pg_regress instead of full copy;
  Don't strip symbols from regress libs
Related: #729012
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #797222 - CVE-2012-0866 postgresql: Absent permission checks on trigger function to be called when creating a trigger
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=797222
  [ 2 ] Bug #797915 - CVE-2012-0867 postgresql: MITM due improper x509_v3 CN validation during certificate verification
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=797915
  [ 3 ] Bug #797917 - CVE-2012-0868 postgresql: SQL injection due unsanitized newline characters in object names
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=797917
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update postgresql' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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