PostgreSQL: SQL injection

Background PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management system. Description PostgreSQL contains a flaw in the string parsing routines that allows certain backslash-escaped characters to be bypassed with some multibyte character encodings. This vulnerability was discovered by...

USN-258-1: PostgreSQL vulnerability

Akio Ishida discovered that the SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION command did not properly verify the validity of its argument. An authenticated PostgreSQL user could exploit this to crash the server. However, this does not affect the official binary Ubuntu packages. The crash can only be triggered if th...