Bug 289222 (CVE-2009-2943)

Summary:	=dev-ml/postgresql-ocaml-1.12.1: Missing escape function (CVE-2009-2943)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Martin Alexander Neumann <hotpotatorouting>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial	CC:	ml
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=11808
Whiteboard:	~3 [noglsa]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Martin Alexander Neumann 2009-10-15 17:37:21 UTC

It was discovered that postgresql-ocaml, OCaml bindings to PostgreSQL's
libpq, was missing a function to call PQescapeStringConn(). This is
needed, because PQescapeStringConn() honours the charset of the
connection and prevents insufficient escaping, when certain multibyte
character encodings are used. The added function is called
escape_string_conn() and takes the established database connection as a
first argument. The old escape_string() was kept for backwards
compatibility.

Developers using these bindings are encouraged to adjust their code to
use the new function.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester

2009-10-23 09:48:26 UTC

CVE-2009-2943 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-2943):
  The postgresql-ocaml bindings 1.5.4, 1.7.0, and 1.12.1 for PostgreSQL
  libpq do not properly support the PQescapeStringConn function, which
  might allow remote attackers to leverage escaping issues involving
  multibyte character encodings.

Comment 2 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2009-10-23 10:18:12 UTC

2009-09-18:  Fixed serious bug in new escape_string method.

             PLEASE UPGRADE!!!

2009-09-08:  API-change: deleted "escape_string" function.

             There is now a method "escape_string" in the connection
             class, which is not deprecated and hence safer.



???

I see no mention of latest version in those cve & bug reports.

Comment 3 Aaron W. Swenson gentoo-dev

2011-04-22 00:58:46 UTC

Time to revisit this. None of the versions available in the tree are listed in the CVE.

1.7.0 was removed three years ago. (A year and half before this bug was reported.)
1.12.1 was removed a year ago.

1.5.4 never was in the tree. According to the ChangeLog anyway.

Comment 4 Sean Amoss (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-01-12 00:43:22 UTC

Vulnerable version removed 09 Apr 2010. Closing noglsa.