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postgresql -- privilege escalation via LOAD

Affected packages
		postgresql-server	<	7.4.3p1

Details

VuXML ID	ba5cd8e4-7788-11d9-bdc2-080020f8e4df
Discovery	2005-01-21
Entry	2005-02-05

Low privileged users can invoke the LOAD extension to load arbitrary libraries into the postgres process space.

References

URL	http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-01/msg00269.php

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