USN-4194-1

Rich Mirch discovered that the postgresql-common pg_ctlcluster script incorrectly handled directory creation. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / postgresql-common

Package

Name: postgresql-common
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/postgresql-common@173ubuntu0.3?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

173ubuntu0.3

Affected versions

Other

169git1

170

171

172

172ubuntu1

173

173ubuntu0.*

173ubuntu0.1

173ubuntu0.2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability":  "No subscription required",
    "binaries":  [
        {
            "binary_name":  "postgresql",
            "binary_version":  "9.5+173ubuntu0.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "postgresql-client",
            "binary_version":  "9.5+173ubuntu0.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "postgresql-client-common",
            "binary_version":  "173ubuntu0.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "postgresql-common",
            "binary_version":  "173ubuntu0.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "postgresql-contrib",
            "binary_version":  "9.5+173ubuntu0.3"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "postgresql-server-dev-all",
            "binary_version":  "173ubuntu0.3"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves":  [
        {
            "id":  "CVE-2019-3466",
            "severity":  [
                {
                    "score":  "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "type":  "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score":  "medium",
                    "type":  "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem":  "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS"
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-4194-1.json"

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / postgresql-common