National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-1170
Original release date:05/19/2010
Last revised:09/09/2010
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
The PL/Tcl implementation in PostgreSQL 7.4 before 7.4.29, 8.0 before 8.0.25, 8.1 before 8.1.21, 8.2 before 8.2.17, 8.3 before 8.3.11, 8.4 before 8.4.4, and 9.0 Beta before 9.0 Beta 2 loads Tcl code from the pltcl_modules table regardless of the table's ownership and permissions, which allows remote authenticated users, with database-creation privileges, to execute arbitrary Tcl code by creating this table and inserting a crafted Tcl script.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
6.8
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-1167
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583072
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-1221
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-1207
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-1198
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-1197
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2010-1182
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1023987
External Source: BID
Name: 40215
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2010:0430
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2010:0429
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2010:0428
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2010:0427
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.postgresql.org/support/security
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-8-4-4.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-8-3-11.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-8-2-17.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-8-1-21.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-8-0-25.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-7-4-29.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news.1203
Type: Advisory
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20100520 CVE-2010-1974 reject request (dupe of CVE-2010-1168) and CVE-2010-1447 description modification request
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDVSA-2010:103
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-2051
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39939
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39898
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39845
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39820
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 39815
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10510
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 64757
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2010:014
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2010-8723
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2010-8715
External Source: FEDORA
Name: FEDORA-2010-8696
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10510
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Technical Details
- Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)