CVE-2017-8806

Description

The Debian pg_ctlcluster, pg_createcluster, and pg_upgradecluster scripts, as distributed in the Debian postgresql-common package before 181+deb9u1 for PostgreSQL (and other packages related to Debian and Ubuntu), handled symbolic links insecurely, which could result in local denial of service by overwriting arbitrary files.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4029

https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3476-1/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3