New security/bug fix releases: 8.4.5, 8.3.12, 8.1.22

@ubuntu-release: I just uploaded 8.4.5-1 to Debian unstable. It passes the upstream as well as the postgresql-common test suites. Can I still sync that into maverick, or do you prefer an USN for this?

Lucid and Karmic updates are in

  http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/packages/psql/lucid/
  http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/packages/psql/karmic/

will continue with the other releases tomorrow.

Updates for older releases:

  http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/packages/psql/dapper/
  http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/packages/psql/hardy/
  http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/packages/psql/jaunty/

Please let me know about any additional questions. Thanks!

Thanks for the packages, I'll build them as security updates now.

This bug was fixed in the package postgresql-8.4 - 8.4.5-0ubuntu10.04

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postgresql-8.4 (8.4.5-0ubuntu10.04) lucid-security; urgency=low

  * New upstream security/bug fix update: (LP: #655293)
    - Use a separate interpreter for each calling SQL userid in PL/Perl
      and PL/Tcl.
      This change prevents security problems that can be caused by
      subverting Perl or Tcl code that will be executed later in the same
      session under another SQL user identity (for example, within a
      SECURITY DEFINER function). Most scripting languages offer numerous
      ways that that might be done, such as redefining standard functions
      or operators called by the target function. Without this change,
      any SQL user with Perl or Tcl language usage rights can do
      essentially anything with the SQL privileges of the target
      function's owner.
      The cost of this change is that intentional communication among
      Perl and Tcl functions becomes more difficult. To provide an escape
      hatch, PL/PerlU and PL/TclU functions continue to use only one
      interpreter per session. This is not considered a security issue
      since all such functions execute at the trust level of a database
      superuser already.
      It is likely that third-party procedural languages that claim to
      offer trusted execution have similar security issues. We advise
      contacting the authors of any PL you are depending on for
      security-critical purposes.
      Our thanks to Tim Bunce for pointing out this issue
      (CVE-2010-3433).
    - Prevent possible crashes in pg_get_expr() by disallowing it from
      being called with an argument that is not one of the system catalog
      columns it's intended to be used with.
    - Fix incorrect placement of placeholder evaluation.
      This bug could result in query outputs being non-null when they
      should be null, in cases where the inner side of an outer join is a
      sub-select with non-strict expressions in its output list.
    - Fix possible duplicate scans of UNION ALL member relations.
    - Fix "cannot handle unplanned sub-select" error.
      This occurred when a sub-select contains a join alias reference
      that expands into an expression containing another sub-select.
    - Fix mishandling of whole-row Vars that reference a view or
      sub-select and appear within a nested sub-select.
    - Fix mishandling of cross-type IN comparisons.
      This could result in failures if the planner tried to implement an
      IN join with a sort-then-unique-then-plain-join plan.
    - Fix computation of "ANALYZE" statistics for tsvector columns.
      The original coding could produce incorrect statistics, leading to
      poor plan choices later.
    - Improve planner's estimate of memory used by array_agg(),
      string_agg(), and similar aggregate functions.
      The previous drastic underestimate could lead to out-of-memory
      failures due to inappropriate choice of a hash-aggregation plan.
    - Fix failure to mark cached plans as transient.
      If a plan is prepared while "CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY" is in
      progress for one of the referenced tables...

This bug was fixed in the package postgresql-8.4 - 8.4.5-0ubuntu9.10

---------------
postgresql-8.4 (8.4.5-0ubuntu9.10) karmic-security; urgency=low

  * New upstream security/bug fix update: (LP: #655293)
    - Use a separate interpreter for each calling SQL userid in PL/Perl
      and PL/Tcl.
      This change prevents security problems that can be caused by
      subverting Perl or Tcl code that will be executed later in the same
      session under another SQL user identity (for example, within a
      SECURITY DEFINER function). Most scripting languages offer numerous
      ways that that might be done, such as redefining standard functions
      or operators called by the target function. Without this change,
      any SQL user with Perl or Tcl language usage rights can do
      essentially anything with the SQL privileges of the target
      function's owner.
      The cost of this change is that intentional communication among
      Perl and Tcl functions becomes more difficult. To provide an escape
      hatch, PL/PerlU and PL/TclU functions continue to use only one
      interpreter per session. This is not considered a security issue
      since all such functions execute at the trust level of a database
      superuser already.
      It is likely that third-party procedural languages that claim to
      offer trusted execution have similar security issues. We advise
      contacting the authors of any PL you are depending on for
      security-critical purposes.
      Our thanks to Tim Bunce for pointing out this issue
      (CVE-2010-3433).
    - Prevent possible crashes in pg_get_expr() by disallowing it from
      being called with an argument that is not one of the system catalog
      columns it's intended to be used with.
    - Fix incorrect placement of placeholder evaluation.
      This bug could result in query outputs being non-null when they
      should be null, in cases where the inner side of an outer join is a
      sub-select with non-strict expressions in its output list.
    - Fix possible duplicate scans of UNION ALL member relations.
    - Fix "cannot handle unplanned sub-select" error.
      This occurred when a sub-select contains a join alias reference
      that expands into an expression containing another sub-select.
    - Fix mishandling of whole-row Vars that reference a view or
      sub-select and appear within a nested sub-select.
    - Fix mishandling of cross-type IN comparisons.
      This could result in failures if the planner tried to implement an
      IN join with a sort-then-unique-then-plain-join plan.
    - Fix computation of "ANALYZE" statistics for tsvector columns.
      The original coding could produce incorrect statistics, leading to
      poor plan choices later.
    - Improve planner's estimate of memory used by array_agg(),
      string_agg(), and similar aggregate functions.
      The previous drastic underestimate could lead to out-of-memory
      failures due to inappropriate choice of a hash-aggregation plan.
    - Fix failure to mark cached plans as transient.
      If a plan is prepared while "CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY" is in
      progress for one of the referenced tables,...

This bug was fixed in the package postgresql-8.3 - 8.3.12-0ubuntu9.04

---------------
postgresql-8.3 (8.3.12-0ubuntu9.04) jaunty-security; urgency=low

  * New upstream security/bug fix release: (LP: #655293)
    - Use a separate interpreter for each calling SQL userid in PL/Perl
      and PL/Tcl.
      This change prevents security problems that can be caused by
      subverting Perl or Tcl code that will be executed later in the same
      session under another SQL user identity (for example, within a
      SECURITY DEFINER function). Most scripting languages offer numerous
      ways that that might be done, such as redefining standard functions
      or operators called by the target function. Without this change,
      any SQL user with Perl or Tcl language usage rights can do
      essentially anything with the SQL privileges of the target
      function's owner.
      The cost of this change is that intentional communication among
      Perl and Tcl functions becomes more difficult. To provide an escape
      hatch, PL/PerlU and PL/TclU functions continue to use only one
      interpreter per session. This is not considered a security issue
      since all such functions execute at the trust level of a database
      superuser already.
      It is likely that third-party procedural languages that claim to
      offer trusted execution have similar security issues. We advise
      contacting the authors of any PL you are depending on for
      security-critical purposes.
      Our thanks to Tim Bunce for pointing out this issue
      (CVE-2010-3433).
    - Prevent possible crashes in pg_get_expr() by disallowing it from
      being called with an argument that is not one of the system catalog
      columns it's intended to be used with.
    - Fix incorrect usage of non-strict OR joinclauses in Append
      indexscans.
      This is a back-patch of an 8.4 fix that was missed in the 8.3
      branch. This corrects an error introduced in 8.3.8 that could cause
      incorrect results for outer joins when the inner relation is an
      inheritance tree or UNION ALL subquery.
    - Fix possible duplicate scans of UNION ALL member relations.
    - Fix "cannot handle unplanned sub-select" error.
      This occurred when a sub-select contains a join alias reference
      that expands into an expression containing another sub-select.
    - Fix failure to mark cached plans as transient.
      If a plan is prepared while "CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY" is in
      progress for one of the referenced tables, it is supposed to be
      re-planned once the index is ready for use. This was not happening
      reliably.
    - Reduce PANIC to ERROR in some occasionally-reported btree failure
      cases, and provide additional detail in the resulting error
      messages.
      This should improve the system's robustness with corrupted indexes.
    - Prevent show_session_authorization() from crashing within
      autovacuum processes.
    - Defend against functions returning setof record where not all the
      returned rows are actually of the same rowtype.
    - Fix possible failure when hashing a pass-by-reference function
      result.
    - Improve mer...

This bug was fixed in the package postgresql-8.3 - 8.3.12-0ubuntu8.04

---------------
postgresql-8.3 (8.3.12-0ubuntu8.04) hardy-security; urgency=low

  * New upstream security/bug fix release: (LP: #655293)
    - Use a separate interpreter for each calling SQL userid in PL/Perl
      and PL/Tcl.
      This change prevents security problems that can be caused by
      subverting Perl or Tcl code that will be executed later in the same
      session under another SQL user identity (for example, within a
      SECURITY DEFINER function). Most scripting languages offer numerous
      ways that that might be done, such as redefining standard functions
      or operators called by the target function. Without this change,
      any SQL user with Perl or Tcl language usage rights can do
      essentially anything with the SQL privileges of the target
      function's owner.
      The cost of this change is that intentional communication among
      Perl and Tcl functions becomes more difficult. To provide an escape
      hatch, PL/PerlU and PL/TclU functions continue to use only one
      interpreter per session. This is not considered a security issue
      since all such functions execute at the trust level of a database
      superuser already.
      It is likely that third-party procedural languages that claim to
      offer trusted execution have similar security issues. We advise
      contacting the authors of any PL you are depending on for
      security-critical purposes.
      Our thanks to Tim Bunce for pointing out this issue
      (CVE-2010-3433).
    - Prevent possible crashes in pg_get_expr() by disallowing it from
      being called with an argument that is not one of the system catalog
      columns it's intended to be used with.
    - Fix incorrect usage of non-strict OR joinclauses in Append
      indexscans.
      This is a back-patch of an 8.4 fix that was missed in the 8.3
      branch. This corrects an error introduced in 8.3.8 that could cause
      incorrect results for outer joins when the inner relation is an
      inheritance tree or UNION ALL subquery.
    - Fix possible duplicate scans of UNION ALL member relations.
    - Fix "cannot handle unplanned sub-select" error.
      This occurred when a sub-select contains a join alias reference
      that expands into an expression containing another sub-select.
    - Fix failure to mark cached plans as transient.
      If a plan is prepared while "CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY" is in
      progress for one of the referenced tables, it is supposed to be
      re-planned once the index is ready for use. This was not happening
      reliably.
    - Reduce PANIC to ERROR in some occasionally-reported btree failure
      cases, and provide additional detail in the resulting error
      messages.
      This should improve the system's robustness with corrupted indexes.
    - Prevent show_session_authorization() from crashing within
      autovacuum processes.
    - Defend against functions returning setof record where not all the
      returned rows are actually of the same rowtype.
    - Fix possible failure when hashing a pass-by-reference function
      result.
    - Improve merg...

I suppose dapper was released together with the others (I saw the ACCEPT), but isn't autoclosing.

Update for maverick: http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/packages/psql/maverick/

This bug was fixed in the package postgresql-8.4 - 8.4.5-0ubuntu10.10

---------------
postgresql-8.4 (8.4.5-0ubuntu10.10) maverick-security; urgency=medium

  * New upstream security/bug fix update: (LP: #655293)
    - Use a separate interpreter for each calling SQL userid in PL/Perl
      and PL/Tcl.
      This change prevents security problems that can be caused by
      subverting Perl or Tcl code that will be executed later in the same
      session under another SQL user identity (for example, within a
      SECURITY DEFINER function). Most scripting languages offer numerous
      ways that that might be done, such as redefining standard functions
      or operators called by the target function. Without this change,
      any SQL user with Perl or Tcl language usage rights can do
      essentially anything with the SQL privileges of the target
      function's owner.
      The cost of this change is that intentional communication among
      Perl and Tcl functions becomes more difficult. To provide an escape
      hatch, PL/PerlU and PL/TclU functions continue to use only one
      interpreter per session. This is not considered a security issue
      since all such functions execute at the trust level of a database
      superuser already.
      It is likely that third-party procedural languages that claim to
      offer trusted execution have similar security issues. We advise
      contacting the authors of any PL you are depending on for
      security-critical purposes.
      Our thanks to Tim Bunce for pointing out this issue
      (CVE-2010-3433).
    - Prevent possible crashes in pg_get_expr() by disallowing it from
      being called with an argument that is not one of the system catalog
      columns it's intended to be used with.
    - Fix incorrect placement of placeholder evaluation.
      This bug could result in query outputs being non-null when they
      should be null, in cases where the inner side of an outer join is a
      sub-select with non-strict expressions in its output list.
    - Fix possible duplicate scans of UNION ALL member relations.
    - Fix "cannot handle unplanned sub-select" error.
      This occurred when a sub-select contains a join alias reference
      that expands into an expression containing another sub-select.
    - Fix mishandling of whole-row Vars that reference a view or
      sub-select and appear within a nested sub-select.
    - Fix mishandling of cross-type IN comparisons.
      This could result in failures if the planner tried to implement an
      IN join with a sort-then-unique-then-plain-join plan.
    - Fix computation of "ANALYZE" statistics for tsvector columns.
      The original coding could produce incorrect statistics, leading to
      poor plan choices later.
    - Improve planner's estimate of memory used by array_agg(),
      string_agg(), and similar aggregate functions.
      The previous drastic underestimate could lead to out-of-memory
      failures due to inappropriate choice of a hash-aggregation plan.
    - Fix failure to mark cached plans as transient.
      If a plan is prepared while "CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY" is in
      progress for one of the referenced ...