Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2012-91
Advisory Release Date: 2012-06-19 16:02 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-14 16:21 Pacific
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
The crypt_des (aka DES-based crypt) function in FreeBSD before 9.0-RELEASE-p2, as used in PHP, PostgreSQL, and other products, does not process the complete cleartext password if this password contains a 0x80 character, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain access via an authentication attempt with an initial substring of the intended password, as demonstrated by a Unicode password.
Affected Packages:
postgresql9
Issue Correction:
Run yum update postgresql9 to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
postgresql9-debuginfo-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-server-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-libs-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-test-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-contrib-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-plpython-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-plperl-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-devel-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-pltcl-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.i686
postgresql9-docs-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.i686
src:
postgresql9-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.src
x86_64:
postgresql9-server-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-test-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-plpython-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-contrib-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-docs-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-libs-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-devel-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-debuginfo-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-pltcl-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.x86_64
postgresql9-plperl-9.1.4-1.21.amzn1.x86_64