National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-6601
Original release date:01/09/2008
Last revised:03/08/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The DBLink module in PostgreSQL 8.2 before 8.2.6, 8.1 before 8.1.11, 8.0 before 8.0.15, 7.4 before 7.4.19, and 7.3 before 7.3.21, when local trust or ident authentication is used, allows remote attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-3278.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: BID
Name: 27163
Type: Patch Information
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-0552
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2008-0478
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1768
External Source: XF
Name: postgresql-dblink-privilege-escalation(39500)
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-1071
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-0109
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-0061
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-568-1
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080115 rPSA-2008-0016-1 postgresql postgresql-server
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20080107 PostgreSQL 2007-01-07 Cumulative Security Release
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0039
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0038
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.905
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2008:004
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1463
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1460
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 103197
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1019157
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200801-15
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28679
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28479
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28477
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28464
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28455
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28454
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28445
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28438
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28437
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28376
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28359
Type: Advisory
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11127
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBTU02325
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2008:0040
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 200559
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29638
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 28698
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2008:005
External Source: HP
Name: SSRT080006
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11127
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5