RHSA-2020:5620 — Security Advisory

An update for the postgresql:12 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system (DBMS).

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: postgresql (12.5).

Security Fix(es):

• postgresql: Reconnection can downgrade connection security settings (CVE-2020-25694)

• postgresql: Multiple features escape "security restricted operation" sandbox (CVE-2020-25695)

• postgresql: Uncontrolled search path element in logical replication (CVE-2020-14349)

• postgresql: Uncontrolled search path element in CREATE EXTENSION (CVE-2020-14350)

• postgresql: psql's \gset allows overwriting specially treated variables (CVE-2020-25696)

• postgresql: ALTER ... DEPENDS ON EXTENSION is missing authorization checks (CVE-2020-1720)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.