This update for postgresql94 fixes the following issues:
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Security and bugfix release 9.4.6:
- *** IMPORTANT*** Users of version 9.4 will need to reindex any
jsonb_path_ops indexes they have created, in order to fix a persistent
issue with missing index entries.
- Fix infinite loops and buffer-overrun problems in regular expressions
(CVE-2016-0773, bsc#966436).
- Fix regular-expression compiler to handle loops of constraint arcs
(CVE-2007-4772).
- Prevent certain PL/Java parameters from being set by non-superusers
(CVE-2016-0766, bsc#966435).
- Fix many issues in pg_dump with specific object types
- Prevent over-eager pushdown of HAVING clauses for GROUPING SETS
- Fix deparsing error with ON CONFLICT … WHERE clauses
- Fix tableoid errors for postgres_fdw
- Prevent floating-point exceptions in pgbench
- Make \det search Foreign Table names consistently
- Fix quoting of domain constraint names in pg_dump
- Prevent putting expanded objects into Const nodes
- Allow compile of PL/Java on Windows
- Fix "unresolved symbol" errors in PL/Python execution
- Allow Python2 and Python3 to be used in the same database
- Add support for Python 3.5 in PL/Python
- Fix issue with subdirectory creation during initdb
- Make pg_ctl report status correctly on Windows
- Suppress confusing error when using pg_receivexlog with older servers
- Multiple documentation corrections and additions
- Fix erroneous hash calculations in gin_extract_jsonb_path()
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For the full release notse, see:
<a href=“http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-6.html”>http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/release-9-4-6.html</a>
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Security and bugfix release 9.4.5:
- CVE-2015-5289, bsc#949670: json or jsonb input values constructed from
arbitrary user input can crash the PostgreSQL server and cause a
denial of service.
- CVE-2015-5288, bsc#949669: The crypt() function included with the
optional pgCrypto extension could be exploited to read a few
additional bytes of memory. No working exploit for this issue has been
developed.
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For the full release notse, see:
<a href=“http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-4-5.html”>http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-4-5.html</a>
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Relax dependency on libpq to major version.