Re: PostgreSQL CVE-2024-7348 today

On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 07:35:20PM +0100, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Moritz Mühlenhoff
> > DSAs have been released, thanks!
>
> Unfortunately there is an ABI change in the last minors that has
> greater impact than originally planned.
>
> The effect is that some extensions need recompilation against the new
> version (after which they will no longer work with the old version).
> In Debian, timescaledb and, to a lesser extend, postgresql-16-age are
> affected, but both are only part of testing, not stable.
>
> (See https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=postgresql-17 where the
> timescaledb problem shows up as regression.)
>
> A new round of releases is planned for next week to revert that part.
>
> Since we can't tell what 3rd-party extensions people are using with
> the Debian packages it would be prudent to release that update as a
> DSA update.
>
> PostgreSQL is well aware that problems like that shouldn't happen and
> the already existing ABI checking will be done even stricter in the
> future, both manually and automated.

Ok, no problem. We'll release that revised update via bookworm-security
as well, then.

Cheers,
Moritz