VMware vFabric Postgres security updates

a. VMware vFabric Postgres security vulnerabilities

VMware vFabric Postgres has been updated to resolve several security issues that were found to be present in Postgres.

The most serious of these issues, CVE-2013-1899, allows for remote deletion of files from the vFabric Postgres data directory. In case vFabric Postgres is not listening for external incoming traffic the issue cannot be exploited remotely.

Mitigation

Disallowing incoming external traffic will mitigate the issue for CVE-2013-1899. Details can be found in http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/runtime-config-connection.html.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the names CVE-2013-1899, CVE-2013-1900 and CVE-2013-1901 to these issues.

Column 4 of the following table lists the action required to remediate the vulnerability in each release, if a solution is available.