Security update for postgresql93

SUSE Security Update: Security update for postgresql93
Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:1821-1
Rating: moderate
References: #949669 #949670
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12
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    An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

    Description:


    The PostreSQL database postgresql93 was updated to the bugfix release
    9.3.10:

    Security issues fixed:
    - CVE-2015-5289, bsc#949670: json or jsonb input values constructed from
    arbitrary user input can crash the PostgreSQL server and cause a denial
    of service.
    - CVE-2015-5288, bsc#949669: The crypt() function included with the
    optional pgCrypto extension could be exploited to read a few additional
    bytes of memory. No working exploit for this issue has been developed.

    For the full release notes, see:
    http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-3-10.html

    Other bugs fixed:
    * Move systemd related stuff and user creation to postgresql-init.
    * Remove some obsolete %suse_version conditionals.
    * Relax dependency on libpq to major version.
    * Fix possible failure to recover from an inconsistent database state. See
    full release notes for details.
    * Fix rare failure to invalidate relation cache init file.
    * Avoid deadlock between incoming sessions and CREATE/DROP DATABASE.
    * Improve planner's cost estimates for semi-joins and anti-joins with
    inner indexscans
    * For the full release notes for 9.3.9 see:
    http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release-9-3-9.html

    Patch Instructions:

    To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
    Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12:
      zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2015-746=1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12:
      zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-746=1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12:
      zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-746=1

    To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 (ppc64le s390x x86_64):
      • postgresql93-devel-9.3.10-11.1
      • postgresql93-devel-debuginfo-9.3.10-11.1
      • postgresql93-libs-debugsource-9.3.10-11.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (ppc64le s390x x86_64):
      • postgresql93-9.3.10-11.1
      • postgresql93-contrib-9.3.10-11.1
      • postgresql93-contrib-debuginfo-9.3.10-11.1
      • postgresql93-debuginfo-9.3.10-11.1
      • postgresql93-debugsource-9.3.10-11.1
      • postgresql93-libs-debugsource-9.3.10-11.1
      • postgresql93-server-9.3.10-11.1
      • postgresql93-server-debuginfo-9.3.10-11.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (noarch):
      • postgresql93-docs-9.3.10-11.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 (x86_64):
      • postgresql93-9.3.10-11.1
      • postgresql93-debuginfo-9.3.10-11.1
      • postgresql93-debugsource-9.3.10-11.1
      • postgresql93-libs-debugsource-9.3.10-11.1

    References: