Link Following The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package postgresql-common (opens in a new tab)
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- published5 Dec 2017
- disclosed5 Dec 2017
Introduced: 5 Dec 2017
CVE-2016-1255 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.10.
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 package in Debian wheezy before 134wheezy5, in Debian jessie before 165+deb8u2, in Debian unstable before 178, in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS before 129ubuntu1.2, in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS before 154ubuntu1.1, in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS before 173ubuntu0.1, in Ubuntu 17.04 before 179ubuntu0.1, and in Ubuntu 17.10 before 184ubuntu1.1 allows local users to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on a logfile in /var/log/postgresql.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-1255
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/01/msg00002.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1255
- https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-postgresql/postgresql-common.git/commit/?id=c8989206ec360f199400c74f129f7b4cb878c1ee
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3476-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3476-2