Symlink Attack The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package postgresql (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published12 Jan 2022
- disclosed13 Nov 2017
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 13 Nov 2017
CVE-2017-8806 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
This was deemed not a vulnerability.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Symlink Attack. The Debian pg_ctlcluster, pg_createcluster, and pg_upgradecluster scripts, as distributed in the Debian postgresql-common package before 181+deb9u1 for PostgreSQL (and other packages related to Debian and Ubuntu), handled symbolic links insecurely, which could result in local denial of service by overwriting arbitrary files.