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Today's Topics:

1. [USN-1542-1] PostgreSQL vulnerabilities (Jamie Strandboge)
2. [USN-1543-1] Config-IniFiles vulnerability (Jamie Strandboge)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:47:30 -0500
From: Jamie Strandboge <jamie@canonical.com>
To: ubuntu-security-announce@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: [USN-1542-1] PostgreSQL vulnerabilities
Message-ID: <1345513650.26782.12.camel@localhost>
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1542-1
August 21, 2012

postgresql-8.3, postgresql-8.4, postgresql-9.1 vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 11.10
- Ubuntu 11.04
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

Summary:

PostgreSQL could allow unintended access to files over the network when
using the XML2 extension.

Software Description:
- postgresql-9.1: Object-relational SQL database
- postgresql-8.4: Object-relational SQL database
- postgresql-8.3: Object-relational SQL database

Details:

Peter Eisentraut discovered that the XSLT functionality in the optional
XML2 extension would allow unprivileged database users to both read and
write data with the privileges of the database server. (CVE-2012-3488)

Noah Misch and Tom Lane discovered that the XML functionality in the
optional XML2 extension would allow unprivileged database users to
read data with the privileges of the database server. (CVE-2012-3489)

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
postgresql-9.1 9.1.5-0ubuntu12.04

Ubuntu 11.10:
postgresql-9.1 9.1.5-0ubuntu11.10

Ubuntu 11.04:
postgresql-8.4 8.4.13-0ubuntu11.04

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
postgresql-8.4 8.4.13-0ubuntu10.04

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
postgresql-8.3 8.3.20-0ubuntu8.04

This update uses a new upstream release, which includes additional bug
fixes. Due to upstream security policies, this update removes the ability
of xslt_process() to fetch documents or stylesheets from external URLs.
Please see http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1407/ for more information.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1542-1
CVE-2012-3488, CVE-2012-3489

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgresql-9.1/9.1.5-0ubuntu12.04
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgresql-9.1/9.1.5-0ubuntu11.10
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgresql-8.4/8.4.13-0ubuntu11.04
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgresql-8.4/8.4.13-0ubuntu10.04
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postgresql-8.3/8.3.20-0ubuntu8.04


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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 20:57:57 -0500
From: Jamie Strandboge <jamie@canonical.com>
To: ubuntu-security-announce@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: [USN-1543-1] Config-IniFiles vulnerability
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1543-1
August 20, 2012

libconfig-inifiles-perl vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 11.10
- Ubuntu 11.04
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

Config-IniFiles could be made to overwrite arbitrary files.

Software Description:
- libconfig-inifiles-perl: Perl module for working with INI configuration files

Details:

It was discovered that the perl Config::IniFiles module created temporary
files in an unsafe manner. A local user with write access to the directory
containing a configuration file that Config-IniFiles manipulates could
exploit this to overwrite arbitrary files.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
libconfig-inifiles-perl 2.68-1ubuntu0.12.04.1

Ubuntu 11.10:
libconfig-inifiles-perl 2.68-1ubuntu0.11.10.1

Ubuntu 11.04:
libconfig-inifiles-perl 2.58-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
libconfig-inifiles-perl 2.52-1ubuntu0.1

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1543-1
CVE-2012-2451

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libconfig-inifiles-perl/2.68-1ubuntu0.12.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libconfig-inifiles-perl/2.68-1ubuntu0.11.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libconfig-inifiles-perl/2.58-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libconfig-inifiles-perl/2.52-1ubuntu0.1


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