Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package postgresql-common  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-POSTGRESQLCOMMON-611879
  • published14 Nov 2019
  • disclosed20 Nov 2019

Introduced: 14 Nov 2019

CVE-2019-3466  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream postgresql-common package and not the postgresql-common package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The pg_ctlcluster script in postgresql-common in versions prior to 210 didn't drop privileges when creating socket/statistics temporary directories, which could result in local privilege escalation.