Two security issues have been fixed in this release which affect users
of specific PostgreSQL features:
CVE-2015-5289: json or jsonb input values constructed from arbitrary
user input can crash the PostgreSQL server and cause a denial of
service.
CVE-2015-5288: 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.
This update will also disable SSL renegotiation by default;
previously, it was enabled by default. SSL renegotiation will be
removed entirely in PostgreSQL versions 9.5 and later.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1615/
Security: CVE-2015-5288 CVE-2015-5289
Earlier update releases attempted to fix an issue in PostgreSQL 9.3 and 9.4
with "multixact wraparound", but failed to account for issues doing multixact
cleanup during crash recovery. This could cause servers to be unable to restart
after a crash. As such, all users of 9.3 and 9.4 should apply this update as
soon as possible.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1592/
The update is mostly to fix the file persmission problem described
in the URL below. You might want to wait until next upgrade, depending
on you local configuration.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1590/
Data Corruption Fix
For users of PostgreSQL versions 9.3 or 9.4, this release fixes a problem where
the database will fail to protect against "multixact wraparound", resulting in
data corruption or loss. Users with a high transaction rate (1 million or more
per hour) in a database with many foreign keys are especially vulnerable. We
strongly urge all users of 9.4 and 9.3 to update their installations in the
next few days.
Users of versions 9.2 and earlier are not affected by this issue.
Security: fc38cd83-00b3-11e5-8ebd-0026551a22dc
"Revert the change from readline to libedit, and instead make libedit optional.",
I failed to get the PORTREVISION set correctly. Fixed now.
PR: ports/197362
This update fixes multiple security issues reported in PostgreSQL over the past
few months. All of these issues require prior authentication, and some require
additional conditions, and as such are not considered generally urgent.
However, users should examine the list of security holes patched below in case
they are particularly vulnerable.
Security: CVE-2015-0241,CVE-2015-0242,CVE-2015-0243,
CVE-2015-0244,CVE-2014-8161
uuid-ossp patch has been outdated with irrelevant changes (for us),
so massage back in.
In head of postgresql, this is handled properly, so eventually the ossp patches
can go.
version of the database system, including versions 9.3.4, 9.2.8, 9.1.13,
9.0.17, and 8.4.21. This minor release fixes a data corruption issue with
replication and crash recovery in version 9.3, as well as several other minor
issues in all versions. All users of version 9.3 are urged to update their
installations at the next possible downtime. Users of older versions should
update at their convenience.
The data corruption issue in PostgreSQL 9.3 affects binary replication
standbys, servers being recovered from point-in-time-recovery backup, and
standalone servers which recover from a system crash. The bug causes
unrecoverable index corruption during recovery due to incorrect replay of row
locking operations. This can then cause query results to be inconsistent
depending on whether or not an index is used, and eventually lead to primary
key violations and similar issues. For this reason, users are encouraged to
replace each of their standby databases with a new base backup after applying
the update.
See release notes for more changes.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release.html
URL: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/20140320UpdateIssues
A change specific to the FreeBSD port:
Modify the contrib/uuid-ossp to actually work (not crashing the backend) by
using the libc implementation of uuid instead of the ossp port. Schemas and
queries will just work. Based on the work of Andrew Gierth. 9.1+ EXTENSION
support added by girgen@.
URL: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/uuid-freebsd
PR: ports/121745, ports/182846
update to all supported versions of the PostgreSQL database system,
which includes minor versions 9.3.3, 9.2.7, 9.1.12, 9.0.16, and
8.4.20. This update contains fixes for multiple security issues, as
well as several fixes for replication and data integrity issues. All
users are urged to update their installations at the earliest
opportunity, especially those using binary replication or running a
high-security application.
This update fixes CVE-2014-0060, in which PostgreSQL did not properly
enforce the WITH ADMIN OPTION permission for ROLE management. Before
this fix, any member of a ROLE was able to grant others access to the
same ROLE regardless if the member was given the WITH ADMIN OPTION
permission. It also fixes multiple privilege escalation issues,
including: CVE-2014-0061, CVE-2014-0062, CVE-2014-0063, CVE-2014-0064,
CVE-2014-0065, and CVE-2014-0066. More information on these issues can
be found on our security page and the security issue detail wiki page.
Security: CVE-2014-0060,CVE-2014-0061,CVE-2014-0062,CVE-2014-0063
CVE-2014-0064,CVE-2014-0065,CVE-2014-0066,CVE-2014-0067
to all supported versions of the PostgreSQL database system, which
includes minor versions 9.3.2, 9.2.6, 9.1.11, 9.0.15, and 8.4.19. This
update fixes three serious data-loss bugs affecting replication and
database maintenance. All users are urged to update their
installations at the earliest opportunity.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1492/
Note that users of the hstore extension on version 9.3 must take an additional,
post upgrade step of running "ALTER EXTENSION hstore UPDATE" in each database
after update.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1487/
This update fixes a denial-of-service (DOS) vulnerability. All users
should update their PostgreSQL installations as soon as possible.
The security issue fixed in this release, CVE-2013-0255, allows a
previously authenticated user to crash the server by calling
an internal function with invalid arguments.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1446/
Security: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-0255
versions of the PostgreSQL database system, including versions 9.2.2, 9.1.7,
9.0.11, 8.4.15, and 8.3.22. Users of PostgreSQL Hot Standby replication
should update at the next possible opportunity. Other users should update
at their next maintenance window.
Deprecate the 8.3.22 version, since it is near end-of-life.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1430/
Feature safe: yes
This update fixes critical issues for major versions 9.1 and 9.2, and
users running those versions should apply it as soon as possible.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1416/
of the PostgreSQL database system, including versions 9.1.5, 9.0.9, 8.4.13 and 8.3.20. This
update patches security holes associated with libxml2 and libxslt, similar to those affecting
other open source projects. All users are urged to update their installations at the first
available opportunity.
This security release fixes a vulnerability in the built-in XML functionality, and a vulnerability
in the XSLT functionality supplied by the optional XML2 extension. Both vulnerabilities allow
reading of arbitrary files by any authenticated database user, and the XSLT vulnerability
allows writing files as well. The fixes cause limited backwards compatibility issues.
These issues correspond to the following two vulnerabilities:
CVE-2012-3488: PostgreSQL insecure use of libxslt
CVE-2012-3489: PostgreSQL insecure use of libxml2
This release also contains several fixes to version 9.1, and a smaller number of fixes to older versions, including:
Updates and corrections to time zone data
Multiple documentation updates and corrections
Add limit on max_wal_senders
Fix dependencies generated during ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT USING INDEX.
Correct behavior of unicode conversions for PL/Python
Fix WITH attached to a nested set operation (UNION/INTERSECT/EXCEPT).
Fix syslogger so that log_truncate_on_rotation works in the first rotation.
Only allow autovacuum to be auto-canceled by a directly blocked process.
Improve fsync request queue operation
Prevent corner-case core dump in rfree().
Fix Walsender so that it responds correctly to timeouts and deadlocks
Several PL/Perl fixes for encoding-related issues
Make selectivity operators use the correct collation
Prevent unsuitable slaves from being selected for synchronous replication
Make REASSIGN OWNED work on extensions as well
Fix race condition with ENUM comparisons
Make NOTIFY cope with out-of-disk-space
Fix memory leak in ARRAY subselect queries
Reduce data loss at replication failover
Fix behavior of subtransactions with Hot Standby
active branches of the PostgreSQL database system, including versions 9.1.4,
9.0.8, 8.4.12 and 8.3.19.
Users of the crypt(text, text) function with DES encryption in the optional
pg_crypto module should upgrade their installations immediately, if you have'nt
already updated since the port was patched on May 30. All other database
administrators are urged to upgrade your version of PostgreSQL at the
next scheduled downtime.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1398/
Security: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2143
Fix incorrect password transformation in contrib/pgcryptoâs DES crypt() function
This was fixed in a patch release for the FreeBSD ports on May 30.
Security: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2655
Ignore SECURITY DEFINER and SET attributes for a procedural languageâs call handle
literal name_enable wherever possible, and ${name}_enable
when it's not, to prepare for the demise of set_rcvar().
In cases where I had to hand-edit unusual instances also
modify formatting slightly to be more uniform (and in
some cases, correct). This includes adding some $FreeBSD$
tags, and most importantly moving rcvar= to right after
name= so it's clear that one is derived from the other.
active branches of the PostgreSQL object-relational database system,
including versions 9.1.2, 9.0.6, 8.4.10, 8.3.17 and 8.2.23.
This release contains 52 fixes to version 9.1, and a smaller number of
fixes to older versions, including:
- Fix bugs in information_schema.referential_constraints view**
- Correct collations for citext columns and indexes**
- Prevent possible crash when joining to a scalar function
- Prevent transitory data corruption of GIN indexes after a crash
- Prevent data corruption on TOAST columns when copying data
- Fix failures during hot standby startup
- Correct another "variable not found in subplan target list" bug
- Fix bug with sorting on aggregate expressions in windowing functions
- Multiple bug fixes for pg_upgrade
- Change Foreign Key creation order to better support
self-referential keys**
- Multiple bug fixes to CREATE EXTENSION
- Ensure that function return type and data returned from PL/perl agree
- Ensure that PL/perl strings are always UTF-8
- Assorted bug fixes for various Extensions
- Updates to the time zone database, particularly to CST6
Changes marked with ** above require additional, post-update steps in
order to fix all described issues.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release.html
Also, fix a pthread problem in the FreeBSD port. [1]
PR: 160580 [1]
Feature safe: yes
