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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-1720: Important: postgresql:12 security update (ALSA-2020-5620)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-1720: Important: postgresql:12 security update (ALSA-2020-5620)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/17/2020
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
06/07/2022

Description

A flaw was found in PostgreSQL's "ALTER ... DEPENDS ON EXTENSION", where sub-commands did not perform authorization checks. An authenticated attacker could use this flaw in certain configurations to perform drop objects such as function, triggers, et al., leading to database corruption. This issue affects PostgreSQL versions before 12.2, before 11.7, before 10.12 and before 9.6.17.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-postgres-decoderbufs

References

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