CVE-2013-1899

Summary

Argument injection vulnerability in PostgreSQL 9.2.x before 9.2.4, 9.1.x before 9.1.9, and 9.0.x before 9.0.13 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file corruption), and allows remote authenticated users to modify configuration settings and execute arbitrary code, via a connection request using a database name that begins with a "-" (hyphen).

Impact & exploitability

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products we track (2)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Additional information

• NVD record
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00004.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101519.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102806.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00007.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00008.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00011.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00012.html