Re: Dissecting PostgreSQL CVE-2013-1899 (blackwinghq.com) - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: Dissecting PostgreSQL CVE-2013-1899 (blackwinghq.com)
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Msg-id 5167496C.7040406@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: Dissecting PostgreSQL CVE-2013-1899 (blackwinghq.com)  (Douglas J Hunley <doug.hunley@gmail.com>)
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> I would hope people have tripwire/aide/et al configured to watch for these
> sorts of things already
>

Most of our non-cloud users connect to the DB from the application as
the superuser (the cloud users don't only because they're not allowed
to).  I think Tripwire is a little beyond them.

Anyway, the Blackwing analysis points out a whole set of potential
exploits which our security team hadn't thought of.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com


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