usn-3476-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2017-11-09 19:28
Modified
2026-02-10 04:41
Summary
postgresql-common vulnerabilities
Details

Dawid Golunski discovered that the postgresql-common pg_ctlcluster script incorrectly handled symlinks. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-1255)

It was discovered that the postgresql-common helper scripts incorrectly handled symlinks. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. (CVE-2017-8806)

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  "modified": "2026-02-10T04:41:14Z",
  "published": "2017-11-09T19:28:04Z",
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}



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