SB2025082753 - SUSE update for postgresql17
Published: August 27, 2025 Updated: November 7, 2025
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-8713)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to PostgreSQL optimizer statistics allow a user to read sampled data within a view that the user cannot access. A remote user can gain access to sensitive information.
2) Code Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-8714)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary psql code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in pg_dump. A malicious superuser of the origin server to inject arbitrary psql code for restore-time execution as the client operating system account running psql to restore the dump, via psql meta-commands, such as pg_dump, pg_dumpall, and pg_restore.
3) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-8715)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary psql code.
The vulnerability exists in pg_dump due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when handling new line characters. A remote attacker can trick the victim into loading a specially crafted backup and execute arbitrary psql code on the system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.