PostgreSQL Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

BID:11295

Info

PostgreSQL Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 11295
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2004-0977
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Sep 30 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Aug 05 2010 07:46PM
Credit: The individual or individuals responsible for the discovery of this issue is currently unknown; Trustix security engineers are credited with these discoveries.
Vulnerable: Trustix Secure Linux 2.1
Trustix Secure Linux 2.0
Trustix Secure Enterprise Linux 2.0
SGI ProPack 3.0
Redhat Enterprise Linux WS 3
Redhat Enterprise Linux ES 3
Redhat Enterprise Linux AS 3
Redhat Desktop 3.0
PostgreSQL PostgreSQL 7.4.5
+ Turbolinux Appliance Server 1.0 Workgroup Edition
 + Turbolinux Appliance Server 1.0 Hosting Edition
 + Turbolinux Appliance Server Hosting Edition 1.0
+ Turbolinux Appliance Server Workgroup Edition 1.0
+ Turbolinux Home
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux Desktop 10.0
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux Server 10.0
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux Server 9.0
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux Server 8.0
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux Server 7.0
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux Workstation 8.0
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux Workstation 7.0
+ Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1 ppc
 + Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1 ia64
 + Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 4.1 ia32
 PostgreSQL PostgreSQL 7.4.3
PostgreSQL PostgreSQL 7.2.1
+ Debian Linux 3.0 sparc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 s/390
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ppc
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mipsel
 + Debian Linux 3.0 mips
 + Debian Linux 3.0 m68k
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-64
 + Debian Linux 3.0 ia-32
 + Debian Linux 3.0 hppa
 + Debian Linux 3.0 arm
 + Debian Linux 3.0 alpha
 + Debian Linux 3.0
+ Gentoo Linux 0.7
+ Gentoo Linux 0.5
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.1 x86_64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.1
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0 AMD64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 10.0
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2 amd64
Mandriva Linux Mandrake 9.2
MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 2.1 x86_64
MandrakeSoft Corporate Server 2.1
Avaya Modular Messaging (MSS) 2.0
Avaya Modular Messaging (MSS) 1.1
Avaya MN100
Avaya Intuity LX
Avaya Integrated Management
Avaya CVLAN
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

PostgreSQL Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

PostgreSQL is affected by an insecure temporary file creation vulnerability. This issue is likely due to a design error that causes the application to fail to verify the existence of a file before writing to it.

An attacker may leverage this issue to overwrite arbitrary files with the privileges of an unsuspecting user that activates the vulnerable application. Reportedly this issue is unlikely to facilitate privilege escalation.

Exploit / POC

PostgreSQL Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

No exploit is required to leverage this issue.

Solution / Fix

PostgreSQL Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

Solution:
Red Hat has released advisory RHSA-2004:489-17 and fixes to address this issue on Red Hat Linux Enterprise platforms. Customers that are affected by this issue are advised to apply the appropriate updates. Customers subscribed to the Red Hat Network may apply the appropriate fixes using the Red Hat Update Agent (up2date). Please see referenced advisory for additional information.

Trustix Linux has released an advisory (TSL-2004-0050) along with fixes dealing with this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

Gentoo has released an advisory (GLSA 200410-16) to address this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for more information. Gentoo users may carry out the following commands to update their computers:

emerge sync
emerge -pv ">=dev-db/postgresql-7.4.5-r2"
emerge ">=dev-db/postgresql-7.4.5-r2"

For more information please see the referenced Gentoo Linux advisory.

Debian Linux has released advisory DSA 577-1 dealing with this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

OpenPKG has released an advisory (OpenPKG-SA-2004.046) to address this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

Mandrake Linux has released advisory MDKSA-2004:149 along with fixes to address this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for further information.

SGI has released advisory 20050101-01-U to address various issues in SGI Advanced Linux Environment 3. This advisory includes updated SGI ProPack 3 Service Pack 3 packages. Please see the referenced advisory for more information.

Avaya has released advisory ASA-2005-024 to document the affected versions of Avaya products. Please see the referenced advisory for further information.

TurboLinux has released Security Announcement 17/Feb/2005 dealing with this and other issues; please see the reference section for more information.

Conectiva has released security advisory CLSA-2005:1008 addressing this issue. Please see the referenced advisory for details on obtaining and applying the appropriate updates.


SGI ProPack 3.0

PostgreSQL PostgreSQL 7.2.1

PostgreSQL PostgreSQL 7.4.3

PostgreSQL PostgreSQL 7.4.5

References

PostgreSQL Insecure Temporary File Creation Vulnerability

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