Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL security update available now

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From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Date: February 5, 2007 9:32:44 AM PST
To: pgsql-announce(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL security update available now

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group releases today a security
update for
all recent PostgreSQL versions: minor versions 8.2.2, 8.1.7, 8.0.11,
7.4.16
and 7.3.18. Because this patches a medium-risk security hole, all
users are
urged to upgrade at the earliest opportunity.

This release fixes CVE-2007-0555 and CVE-2007-0556. Both of these
issues
allow an authenticated attacker with the permissions to run arbitrary
SQL to
launch a denial-of-service attack or possibly read out random chunks of
memory. Since attacks to require authenticated access, the security
hole is
only considered medium risk. You can read more about the issues on
Mitre:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0555
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0556

In keeping with the PostgreSQL Project's security fix policies, this
update is
being released as quickly as possible: within 2 weeks of the first bug
report, and within five days of developing a fix. This type of fast
response
is central to PostgreSQL's reputation as one of the most secure
databases in
the industry.

The new minor versions may be downloaded from our download page:
http://www.postgresql.org/download/. Users will not need to dump &
reload
for the upgrade. However, see the release notes for your target
version:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/release.html

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