Bug 73142

Summary: security: new upstream postgresql
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: mhjacks
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: Ade Lovett <ade>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description mhjacks 2004-10-26 02:10:33 UTC 
      http://www.postgresql.org/news/234.html

In order to address a recent security report from iDefence, we have released 3 new "point" releases: 7.2.6, 7.3.8 and 7.4.6

Although rated only a Medium risk, according to their web site: "A vulnerability exists due to the insecure creation of temporary files, which could possibly let a malicious user overwrite arbitrary files."

Also in these releases is a potential 'data loss' bug that was recently identified:

* Repair possible failure to update hint bits on disk
Under rare circumstances this oversight could lead to "could not access transaction status" failures, which qualifies it as a potential-data-loss bug.

Fix: 

Upgrade to new version(s)
How-To-Repeat:       See security advisory
Comment 1 Ade Lovett freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-10-26 03:07:24 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->ade

I'm currently doing a bunch of postgresql-related work, so I'll 
work on this one.
Comment 2 Ade Lovett freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2004-11-05 19:23:34 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Updated after consultation with maintainer.  Thanks for the heads-up.