Race condition in PostgreSQL - CVE-2014-0062

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Race condition in PostgreSQL - CVE-2014-0062

Published: March 31, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU41874
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0062
CWE-ID: CWE-362
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote #AU# to read and manipulate data.

Race condition in the (1) CREATE INDEX and (2) unspecified ALTER TABLE commands in PostgreSQL before 8.4.20, 9.0.x before 9.0.16, 9.1.x before 9.1.12, 9.2.x before 9.2.7, and 9.3.x before 9.3.3 allows remote authenticated users to create an unauthorized index or read portions of unauthorized tables by creating or deleting a table with the same name during the timing window.


Affected software

PostgreSQL
Amazon Linux AMI
Gentoo Linux
Ubuntu
postgresql-8.4 (Ubuntu package)
postgresql-9.1 (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2014-0062

Install update from vendor's website.

postgresql-8.4 (Ubuntu package) - update to 8.4.20-0ubuntu010.04
postgresql-9.1 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions 9.1.12-0ubuntu0.12.04, 9.1.12-0ubuntu0.12.10, 9.1.12-0ubuntu0.13.10

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