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Re: CVE DISPUTE notification: postgresql-jdbc: SQL injection due improper escaping of JDBC statement parameters
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:49:26 -0600
On 04/04/2012 01:47 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com> writes:So I think it's safe to say that we can (and should) assign CVE's based on the unintended interactions of products (assigning a CVE helps ensure that people are more likely to find out, security scanners all love to pick up on CVE's, etc.). I'm going to assign a CVE for this and suggest a description of (stolen directly from the first bug report (http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security/2012-03/msg00024.html):"When using PostgreSQL JDBC driver version 8.1 to connect to a PostgreSQL version 9.1 database, escaping of JDBC statement parameters does not work and SQL injection attacks are possible. It should be noted that the PostgreSQL JDBC driver version 8.1 is officially obsolete and should not be used."Please use CVE-2012-1618 for this issue.Well, if you want to have a CVE for this, you should use a more complete description. The actual scenario is that pre-8.2 versions of the JDBC driver do not know about the "standard_conforming_strings" option of more recent Postgres servers, and are insecure with *any* Postgres server in which that option is turned on, which has been possible since server version 8.2. What changed in the 9.1 server is that that option is now on by default. It's still possible (and will remain so for the foreseeable future) to turn the option off in the server configuration, making this and other ancient clients secure again. But that isn't the default anymore. regards, tom lane
Ahh perfect, thanks for the extra details! -- Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT) PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993
Current thread:
- Re: CVE DISPUTE notification: postgresql-jdbc: SQL injection due improper escaping of JDBC statement parameters Kurt Seifried (Apr 04)
- Re: CVE DISPUTE notification: postgresql-jdbc: SQL injection due improper escaping of JDBC statement parameters Tom Lane (Apr 04)
- Re: CVE DISPUTE notification: postgresql-jdbc: SQL injection due improper escaping of JDBC statement parameters Kurt Seifried (Apr 04)
- Re: CVE DISPUTE notification: postgresql-jdbc: SQL injection due improper escaping of JDBC statement parameters Tom Lane (Apr 04)