"PostgreSQL Security Release(s) for 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 Posted on 2004-10-23 Posted by press at PostgreSQL.org 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."
the vulnerability has already been addressed in bug #66371 and glsa 200410-16: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-16.xml update to postgresql >= 7.4.5-r2 or 7.3.7-r2. postgresql 7.3.8 and 7.4.6 are already in portage, currently marked unstable. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 66371 ***
