Category Archives: Advisories

USN-5440-1: PostgreSQL vulnerability

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Alexander Lakhin discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled the
security restricted operation sandbox when a privileged user is maintaining
another user’s objects. An attacker having permission to create non-temp
objects can use this issue to execute arbitrary commands as the superuser.

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USN-5438-1: HTMLDOC vulnerability

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It was discovered that HTMLDOC did not properly manage memory under certain
circumstances. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted HTML
file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause HTMLDOC to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

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