Medium: postgresql9

Issue Overview:

The libxslt support in contrib/xml2 in PostgreSQL 8.3 before 8.3.20, 8.4 before 8.4.13, 9.0 before 9.0.9, and 9.1 before 9.1.5 does not properly restrict access to files and URLs, which allows remote authenticated users to modify data, obtain sensitive information, or trigger outbound traffic to arbitrary external hosts by leveraging (1) stylesheet commands that are permitted by the libxslt security options or (2) an xslt_process feature, related to an XML External Entity (aka XXE) issue.

Affected Packages:

postgresql9

Issue Correction:
Run yum update postgresql9 to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    postgresql9-devel-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql9-docs-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql9-test-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql9-pltcl-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql9-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql9-debuginfo-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql9-plperl-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql9-plpython-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql9-contrib-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql9-server-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql9-libs-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    postgresql9-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    postgresql9-devel-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql9-server-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql9-plperl-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql9-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql9-pltcl-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql9-libs-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql9-docs-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql9-test-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql9-debuginfo-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql9-contrib-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql9-plpython-9.1.5-1.23.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2012-3488

Mitre: CVE-2012-3488