[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: postgresql-9.2.4-1.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-6148
2013-04-20 18:48:45
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Name        : postgresql
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 9.2.4
Release     : 1.fc19
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 PostgreSQL 9.2.4, for various fixes described at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/release-9-2-4.html
including the fixes for CVE-2013-1899, CVE-2013-1900, CVE-2013-1901
- fix build for aarch64 and ppc64p7

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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #929223 - CVE-2013-1899 postgresql: Insecure switch parsing
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=929223
  [ 2 ] Bug #929255 - CVE-2013-1900 postgresql: Improper randomization of pgcrypto functions (requiring random seed)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=929255
  [ 3 ] Bug #929328 - CVE-2013-1901 postgresql: Improper user privilege check for on-line backups
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=929328
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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/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
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