SQL Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package postgresql-9.1 (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published2 Dec 2018
- disclosed13 Nov 2018
Introduced: 13 Nov 2018
CVE-2018-16850 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream postgresql-9.1 package and not the postgresql-9.1 package as distributed by Ubuntu.
postgresql before versions 11.1, 10.6 is vulnerable to a to SQL injection in pg_upgrade and pg_dump via CREATE TRIGGER ... REFERENCING. Using a purpose-crafted trigger definition, an attacker can cause arbitrary SQL statements to run, with superuser privileges.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-16850
- https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1905/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16850
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16850
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-24
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16850
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3757
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105923
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042144
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3818-1/