Bug 978456 (CVE-2016-2193) - VUL-0: CVE-2016-2193, CVE-2016-3065: postgresql: Security Update Release 9.5.2 (2016-03-31)
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2016-2193, CVE-2016-3065: postgresql: Security Update Release 9.5....
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2016-2193
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
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Reported: 2016-05-04 12:30 UTC by Alexander Bergmann
Modified: 2018-10-02 08:45 UTC (History)
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Description Alexander Bergmann 2016-05-04 12:30:52 UTC
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1656/

Security Update Release
Posted on 2016-03-31

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported versions of our database system, including 9.5.2, 9.4.7, 9.3.12, 9.2.16, and 9.1.21. This release fixes two security issues and one index corruption issue in version 9.5. It also contains a variety of bug fixes for earlier versions. Users of PostgreSQL 9.5.0 or 9.5.1 should update as soon as possible.
Security Fixes for RLS, BRIN

This release closes security hole CVE-2016-2193, where a query plan might get reused for more than one ROLE in the same session. This could cause the wrong set of Row Level Security (RLS) policies to be used for the query.

The update also fixes CVE-2016-3065, a server crash bug triggered by using pageinspect with BRIN index pages. Since an attacker might be able to expose a few bytes of server memory, this crash is being treated as a security issue.
Abbreviated Keys and Corrupt Indexes

In this release, the PostgreSQL Project has been forced to disable 9.5's Abbreviated Keys performance feature for many indexes due to reports of index corruption. This may affect any B-tree indexes on TEXT, VARCHAR, and CHAR columns which are not in "C" locale. Indexes in other locales will lose the performance benefits of the feature, and should be REINDEXed in case of existing index corruption. The feature may be re-enabled in future versions if the project finds a solution for the problem. See the release notes, and the wiki page on this issue for more information.
Other Fixes and Improvements

In addition to the above, many other issues were patched in this release based on bugs reported by our users over the last few months. This includes bugs which affect multiple versions of PostgreSQL, such as:

    Fix two bugs in indexed ROW() comparisons
    Avoid data loss due to renaming files
    Prevent an error in rechecking rows in SELECT FOR UPDATE/SHARE
    Fix bugs in multiple json_ and jsonb_ functions
    Log lock waits for INSERT ON CONFLICT correctly
    Ignore recovery_min_apply_delay until reaching a consistent state
    Fix issue with pg_subtrans XID wraparound
    Fix assorted bugs in Logical Decoding
    Fix planner error with nested security barrier views
    Prevent memory leak in GIN indexes
    Fix two issues with ispell dictionaries
    Avoid a crash on old Windows versions
    Skip creating an erroneous delete script in pg_upgrade
    Correctly translate empty arrays into PL/Perl
    Make PL/Python cope with identifier names

This update also contains tzdata release 2016c, with updates for Azerbaijan, Chile, Haiti, Palestine, and Russia, and historical fixes for other regions.
Comment 1 Swamp Workflow Management 2016-05-04 22:00:15 UTC
bugbot adjusting priority
Comment 4 Marcus Meissner 2017-05-09 16:01:44 UTC
was released in the meantime