Executive Summary

Summary
Title postgresql-common vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-4194-1 First vendor Publication 2019-11-14
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2019-11-14
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

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Cvss Impact Score N/A Attack Complexity N/A
Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 19.10 - Ubuntu 19.04 - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

postgresql-common could be made to create arbitrary directories.

Software Description: - postgresql-common: PostgreSQL database-cluster manager

Details:

Rich Mirch discovered that the postgresql-common pg_ctlcluster script incorrectly handled directory creation. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.10:
postgresql-common 204ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 19.04:
postgresql-common 199ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
postgresql-common 190ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
postgresql-common 173ubuntu0.3

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4194-1
CVE-2019-3466

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgresql-common/204ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgresql-common/199ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgresql-common/190ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgresql-common/173ubuntu0.3

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-4194-1

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Date Informations
2020-03-19 13:20:12
  • First insertion