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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4269-1 postgresql-9.6 -- security update

Date Reported:

10 Aug 2018

Affected Packages:

postgresql-9.6

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-10915, CVE-2018-10925.

More information:

Two vulnerabilities have been found in the PostgreSQL database system:

• CVE-2018-10915

  Andrew Krasichkov discovered that libpq did not reset all its connection state during reconnects.

• CVE-2018-10925

  It was discovered that some CREATE TABLE statements could disclose server memory.

For additional information please refer to the upstream announcement at https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1878/

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 9.6.10-0+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql-9.6 packages.

For the detailed security status of postgresql-9.6 please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/postgresql-9.6