rh security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0039

PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system
(DBMS). The postgresql packages include the client programs and libraries
needed to access a PostgreSQL DBMS server.

A privilege escalation flaw was discovered in PostgreSQL. An authenticated
attacker could create an index function that would be executed with
administrator privileges during database maintenance tasks, such as
database vacuuming. (CVE-2007-6600)

A privilege escalation flaw was discovered in PostgreSQL’s Database Link
library (dblink). An authenticated attacker could use dblink to possibly
escalate privileges on systems with “trust” or “ident” authentication
configured. Please note that dblink functionality is not enabled by
default, and can only by enabled by a database administrator on systems
with the postgresql-contrib package installed.
(CVE-2007-3278, CVE-2007-6601)

All postgresql users should upgrade to these updated packages, which
include PostgreSQL 7.3.21 and resolve these issues.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-January/076733.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-January/076734.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-January/076736.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2008-January/076741.html

Affected packages:
rh-postgresql
rh-postgresql-contrib
rh-postgresql-devel
rh-postgresql-docs
rh-postgresql-jdbc
rh-postgresql-libs
rh-postgresql-pl
rh-postgresql-python
rh-postgresql-server
rh-postgresql-tcl
rh-postgresql-test

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008:0039