#postgres

Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-6018-03 - An update for the postgresql:13 module is now available for ed Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-6001-03 - An update for the postgresql:15 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-6000-03 - An update for the postgresql:12 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-5999-03 - An update for the postgresql is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-5929-03 - An update for the postgresql:16 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Cybersecurity researchers have unpacked a new malware strain dubbed PG_MEM that's designed to mine cryptocurrency after brute-forcing their way into PostgreSQL database instances. "Brute-force attacks on Postgres involve repeatedly attempting to guess the database credentials until access is gained, exploiting weak passwords," Aqua security researcher Assaf Morag said in a technical report. "

Ubuntu Security Notice 6968-1 - Noah Misch discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled certain SQL objects. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary SQL functions as the superuser.

The following presentation at this year's DEF CON was brought to our attention on the SQLx Discord: > SQL Injection isn't Dead: Smuggling Queries at the Protocol Level > <http://web.archive.org/web/20240812130923/https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2032/DEF%20CON%2032%20presentations/DEF%20CON%2032%20-%20Paul%20Gerste%20-%20SQL%20Injection%20Isn't%20Dead%20Smuggling%20Queries%20at%20the%20Protocol%20Level.pdf> > (Archive link for posterity.) Essentially, encoding a value larger than 4GiB can cause the length prefix in the protocol to overflow, causing the server to interpret the rest of the string as binary protocol commands or other data. It appears SQLx _does_ perform truncating casts in a way that could be problematic, for example: <https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx/blob/6f2905695b9606b5f51b40ce10af63ac9e696bb8/sqlx-postgres/src/arguments.rs#L163> This code has existed essentially since the beginning, so it is reasonable to assume that all published versions `<= 0.8.0` a...

As of January 10, 2023, CISA will no longer be updating ICS security advisories for Siemens product vulnerabilities beyond the initial advisory. For the most up-to-date information on vulnerabilities in this advisory, please see Siemens' ProductCERT Security Advisories (CERT Services | Services | Siemens Global).  View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v4 9.4 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Siemens Equipment: SINEC NMS Vulnerabilities: Use After Free, Improper Input Validation, Deserialization of Untrusted Data, Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer, Uncontrolled Resource Consumption, Out-of-bounds Read, Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion'), Privilege Dropping / Lowering Errors, Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling, Execution with Unnecessary Privileges, Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'), Incorrect Authorization 2. RIS...

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5746-1 - Noah Misch discovered a race condition in the pg_dump tool included in PostgreSQL, which may result in privilege escalation.