Medium: postgresql95, postgresql96

Issue Overview:

Privilege escalation flaws were found in the initialization scripts of PostgreSQL. A remote attacker with access to the postgres user account could use these flaws to obtain root access on the server machine.(CVE-2017-12172)

INSERT … ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE commands in PostgreSQL disclose table contents that the invoker lacks privilege to read. These exploits affect only tables where the attacker lacks full read access but has both INSERT and UPDATE privileges. Exploits bypass row level security policies and lack of SELECT privilege.(CVE-2017-15099)

Invalid json_populate_recordset or jsonb_populate_recordset function calls in PostgreSQL can crash the server or disclose a few bytes of server memory.(CVE-2017-15098)

Affected Packages:

postgresql95, postgresql96

Issue Correction:
Run yum update postgresql95 to update your system.
Run yum update postgresql96 to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    postgresql95-plperl-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql95-libs-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql95-debuginfo-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql95-devel-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql95-test-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql95-contrib-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql95-docs-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql95-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql95-plpython26-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql95-static-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql95-server-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql95-plpython27-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql96-plperl-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql96-plpython26-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql96-plpython27-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql96-devel-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql96-contrib-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql96-static-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql96-docs-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql96-libs-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql96-debuginfo-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql96-test-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql96-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.i686  
    postgresql96-server-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    postgresql95-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.src  
    postgresql96-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    postgresql95-server-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql95-devel-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql95-contrib-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql95-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql95-static-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql95-plpython27-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql95-libs-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql95-docs-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql95-plpython26-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql95-plperl-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql95-debuginfo-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql95-test-9.5.10-1.77.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql96-static-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql96-docs-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql96-plperl-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql96-libs-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql96-test-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql96-debuginfo-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql96-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql96-contrib-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql96-server-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql96-plpython26-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql96-devel-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.x86_64  
    postgresql96-plpython27-9.6.6-1.79.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2017-12172, CVE-2017-15098, CVE-2017-15099

Mitre: CVE-2017-12172, CVE-2017-15098, CVE-2017-15099