Product: Solaris 10, OpenSolaris Security vulnerabilities affecting the PostgreSQL software shipped with Solaris may allow an authenticated PostgreSQL user to cause a denial of service (DoS) to the PostgreSQL server by "re-LOAD-ing" libraries from a certain plugins directory. However, the PostgreSQL versions shipped with Solaris do not include any plugins. In addition, an issue with the privileges for RESET ROLE and RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION operations may allow any authenticated users to gain extra privileges. These issues are described in the ...
Product: Solaris 10, OpenSolaris
Security vulnerabilities affecting the PostgreSQL software shipped with Solaris may allow an authenticated PostgreSQL user to cause a denial of service (DoS) to the PostgreSQL server by "re-LOAD-ing" libraries from a certain plugins directory. However, the PostgreSQL versions shipped with Solaris do not include any plugins. In addition, an issue with the privileges for RESET ROLE and RESET SESSION AUTHORIZATION operations may allow any authenticated users to gain extra privileges.
These issues are described in the following documents:
Official PostgreSQL announcement at: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1135
CVE-2009-3229 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3229
CVE-2009-3230 at: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3230
Note: PostgreSQL is not compiled with LDAP support on Solaris. Solaris is not affected with CVE-2009-3231.
State: Workaround
First released: 26-Oct-2009
