The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported
versions of our database system, including 10.1, 9.6.6, 9.5.10, 9.4.15, 9.3.20,
and 9.2.24. This release fixes three security issues. This release also fixes
issues found in BRIN indexing, logical replication and other bugs reported over
the past three months.
Please note that the CVE-2017-12172 does not affect the FreeBSD port unless you
decided to not use the contrib/startscript instead of the startscript
distributed with the FreeBSD port/package.
Security: CVE-2017-12172, CVE-2017-15099, CVE-2017-15098
URL: https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1801/
supported versions of our database system, including 9.6.5, 9.5.9,
9.4.14, 9.3.19, and 9.2.23.
This release includes fixes that prevent a crash in pg_restore when
using parallel mode. It also patches over a few other bugs reported
since the last releases in August.
Additionally, in 9.4.14 only, there is a fix to an issue with walsenders
preventing primary-server shutdown unless immediate shutdown mode is used.
Users should plan to update at the next convenient downtime.
Bug Fixes and Improvements
This update also fixes a number of bugs reported in the last few weeks.
Some of these issues affect only version 9.6, but many affect all
supported versions:
* Show foreign tables in information_schema.table_privileges view.
This fix applies to new databases, see the release notes for the
procedure to apply the fix to an existing database.
* Correctly identify columns that are of a range type or domain type
over a composite type or domain type being searched for
* Prevent crash when passing fixed-length pass-by-reference data types
to parallel worker processes
* Change ecpg’s parser to allow RETURNING clauses without attached C
variables
* Change ecpg’s parser to recognize backslash continuation of C
preprocessor command lines
* Improve selection of compiler flags for PL/Perl on Windows
supported versions of our database system, including 9.6.4, 9.5.8,
9.4.13, 9.3.18, and 9.2.22. This release fixes three security issues.
It also patches over 50 other bugs reported over the last three months.
Users who are affected by the below security issues should update as
soon as possible. Users affected by CVE-2017-7547
(https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7547) will need to
perform additional steps after upgrading to resolve the issue. Other
users should plan to update at the next convenient downtime.
URL: https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1772/
Security: CVE-2017-7546, CVE-2017-7547, CVE-2017-7548
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported
versions of our database system, including 9.6.3, 9.5.7, 9.4.12, 9.3.17, and
9.2.21. This release fixes three security issues. It also patches a number of
other bugs reported over the last three months. Users who use the PGREQUIRESSL
environment variable to control connections, and users who rely on security
isolation between database users when using foreign servers, should update as
soon as possible. Other users should plan to update at the next convenient
downtime.
URL: https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1746/
Security: CVE-2017-7484, CVE-2017-7485, CVE-2017-7486
Also modify rcorder and let sshd start before PostgreSQL, so any problems
during startup can be reviewed promplty from an ssh login.
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported
versions of our database system, including 9.6.2, 9.5.6, 9.4.11, 9.3.16, and
9.2.20. This release includes fixes that prevent data corruption issues in
index builds and in certain write-ahead-log replay situations, which are
detailed below. It also patches over 75 other bugs reported over the last three
months.
Users should plan to apply this update at the next scheduled downtime.
Build corruption with CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY
There existed a race condition if CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY was called on a
column that had not been indexed before, then rows that were updated by
transactions running at the same time as the CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY command
could have been indexed incorrectly.
If you suspect this may have happened, the most reliable solution is to rebuild
affected indexes after installing this update.
This issue is present in the 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, and 9.6 series of PostgreSQL.
URL https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1733/
- Add PYTHON_PYOEXTENSION and PYTHON_SUFFIX
- Add PYTHON2 and PYTHON3
- Respect PYTHON_VERSION
- Rename PYOEXTENSION to PYTHON_PYOEXTENSION
This change would help:
- Build databases/postgresql*-plpython with Python 3
(It has PLIST issue since bsd.python.mk to Uses/python.mk transition)
- Simplify Makefile
PR: 205807
Differential Revision: https://reviews.FreeBSD.org/D4758
Exp-run by: antoine
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported
versions of our database system, including 9.6.1, 9.5.5, 9.4.10, 9.3.15,
9.2.19, and 9.1.24.
This release fixes two issues that can cause data corruption, which are
described in more detail below. It also patches a number of other bugs reported
over the last three months. The project urges users to apply this update at the
next possible downtime.
versions of our database system, including 9.5.4, 9.4.9, 9.3.14, 9.2.18 and
9.1.23. This release fixes two security issues. It also patches a number of
other bugs reported over the last three months. Users who rely on security
isolation between database users should update as soon as possible. Other users
should plan to update at the next convenient downtime.
If you are using the ICU patch, please consult UPDATING.
Improve periodic cleanup, suggested by claudius (at) ambtec.de. [1]
PR: 210941 [1]
Security: CVE-2016-5423, CVE-2016-5424
Security Fixes for Regular Expressions, PL/Java
This release closes security hole CVE-2016-0773, an issue with regular
expression (regex) parsing. Prior code allowed users to pass in expressions
which included out-of-range Unicode characters, triggering a backend crash.
This issue is critical for PostgreSQL systems with untrusted users or which
generate regexes based on user input.
The update also fixes CVE-2016-0766, a privilege escalation issue for users of
PL/Java. Certain custom configuration settings (GUCS) for PL/Java will now be
modifiable only by the database superuser
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1644/
Security: CVE-2016-0773, CVE-2016-0766
Two security issues have been fixed in this release which affect users
of specific PostgreSQL features:
CVE-2015-5289: json or jsonb input values constructed from arbitrary
user input can crash the PostgreSQL server and cause a denial of
service.
CVE-2015-5288: 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.
This update will also disable SSL renegotiation by default;
previously, it was enabled by default. SSL renegotiation will be
removed entirely in PostgreSQL versions 9.5 and later.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1615/
Security: CVE-2015-5288 CVE-2015-5289
Earlier update releases attempted to fix an issue in PostgreSQL 9.3 and 9.4
with "multixact wraparound", but failed to account for issues doing multixact
cleanup during crash recovery. This could cause servers to be unable to restart
after a crash. As such, all users of 9.3 and 9.4 should apply this update as
soon as possible.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1592/
The update is mostly to fix the file persmission problem described
in the URL below. You might want to wait until next upgrade, depending
on you local configuration.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1590/
Data Corruption Fix
For users of PostgreSQL versions 9.3 or 9.4, this release fixes a problem where
the database will fail to protect against "multixact wraparound", resulting in
data corruption or loss. Users with a high transaction rate (1 million or more
per hour) in a database with many foreign keys are especially vulnerable. We
strongly urge all users of 9.4 and 9.3 to update their installations in the
next few days.
Users of versions 9.2 and earlier are not affected by this issue.
Security: fc38cd83-00b3-11e5-8ebd-0026551a22dc
This update fixes multiple security issues reported in PostgreSQL over the past
few months. All of these issues require prior authentication, and some require
additional conditions, and as such are not considered generally urgent.
However, users should examine the list of security holes patched below in case
they are particularly vulnerable.
Security: CVE-2015-0241,CVE-2015-0242,CVE-2015-0243,
CVE-2015-0244,CVE-2014-8161
uuid-ossp patch has been outdated with irrelevant changes (for us),
so massage back in.
In head of postgresql, this is handled properly, so eventually the ossp patches
can go.
version of the database system, including versions 9.3.4, 9.2.8, 9.1.13,
9.0.17, and 8.4.21. This minor release fixes a data corruption issue with
replication and crash recovery in version 9.3, as well as several other minor
issues in all versions. All users of version 9.3 are urged to update their
installations at the next possible downtime. Users of older versions should
update at their convenience.
The data corruption issue in PostgreSQL 9.3 affects binary replication
standbys, servers being recovered from point-in-time-recovery backup, and
standalone servers which recover from a system crash. The bug causes
unrecoverable index corruption during recovery due to incorrect replay of row
locking operations. This can then cause query results to be inconsistent
depending on whether or not an index is used, and eventually lead to primary
key violations and similar issues. For this reason, users are encouraged to
replace each of their standby databases with a new base backup after applying
the update.
See release notes for more changes.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release.html
URL: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/20140320UpdateIssues
A change specific to the FreeBSD port:
Modify the contrib/uuid-ossp to actually work (not crashing the backend) by
using the libc implementation of uuid instead of the ossp port. Schemas and
queries will just work. Based on the work of Andrew Gierth. 9.1+ EXTENSION
support added by girgen@.
URL: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/uuid-freebsd
PR: ports/121745, ports/182846
update to all supported versions of the PostgreSQL database system,
which includes minor versions 9.3.3, 9.2.7, 9.1.12, 9.0.16, and
8.4.20. This update contains fixes for multiple security issues, as
well as several fixes for replication and data integrity issues. All
users are urged to update their installations at the earliest
opportunity, especially those using binary replication or running a
high-security application.
This update fixes CVE-2014-0060, in which PostgreSQL did not properly
enforce the WITH ADMIN OPTION permission for ROLE management. Before
this fix, any member of a ROLE was able to grant others access to the
same ROLE regardless if the member was given the WITH ADMIN OPTION
permission. It also fixes multiple privilege escalation issues,
including: CVE-2014-0061, CVE-2014-0062, CVE-2014-0063, CVE-2014-0064,
CVE-2014-0065, and CVE-2014-0066. More information on these issues can
be found on our security page and the security issue detail wiki page.
Security: CVE-2014-0060,CVE-2014-0061,CVE-2014-0062,CVE-2014-0063
CVE-2014-0064,CVE-2014-0065,CVE-2014-0066,CVE-2014-0067
to all supported versions of the PostgreSQL database system, which
includes minor versions 9.3.2, 9.2.6, 9.1.11, 9.0.15, and 8.4.19. This
update fixes three serious data-loss bugs affecting replication and
database maintenance. All users are urged to update their
installations at the earliest opportunity.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1492/
Note that users of the hstore extension on version 9.3 must take an additional,
post upgrade step of running "ALTER EXTENSION hstore UPDATE" in each database
after update.
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1487/
Major enhancements in PostgreSQL 9.3 include:
- Add materialized views
- Make simple views auto-updatable
- Add many features for the JSON data type, including operators and functions to extract elements from JSON values
- Implement SQL-standard LATERAL option for FROM-clause subqueries and function calls
- Allow foreign data wrappers to support writes (inserts/updates/deletes) on foreign tables
- Add a Postgres foreign data wrapper to allow access to other Postgres servers
- Add support for event triggers
- Add optional ability to checksum data pages and report corruption
- Prevent non-key-field row updates from blocking foreign key checks
- Greatly reduce System V shared memory requirements
URL: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release-9-3.html
