[SECURITY] [DSA 2630-1] postgresql-8.4 security update

Debian Security Advisory DSA-2630-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
February 20, 2013 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : postgresql-8.4
Vulnerability : programming error
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CVE-2013-0255

Sumit Soni discovered that PostgreSQL,an object-relational SQL database,
could be forced to crash when an internal function was called with
invalid arguments, resulting in denial of service.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 8.4.16-0squeeze1.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 8.4.16-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 8.4.16-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql-8.4 packages.

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