pike: SQL injection vulnerability

Background

Pike is a general purpose programming language, able to be used for multiple tasks.

Description

Some input is not properly sanitised before being used in a SQL statement in the underlying PostgreSQL database.

Impact

A remote attacker could provide malicious input to a pike program, which might result in the execution of arbitrary SQL statements.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All pike users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/pike-7.6.86"