#38669: Update for major security issue in PostgreSQL 9 -------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: | Owner: macports-tickets@… macports.org@… | Status: new Type: update | Milestone: Priority: High | Version: 2.1.3 Component: ports | Port: postgresql84, postgresql90, Keywords: | postgresql91, postgresql92 -------------------------+------------------------------------------------- The PostgreSQL team just released versions 9.2.4, 9.1.9, 9.0.13 and 8.4.17: http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1456/ The post important part is fixes to the 9.x series for CVE-2013-1899 which allows DoS, privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution especially of publicly visible PostgreSQL servers: http://www.postgresql.org/support/security/faq/2013-04-04/ 8.4 isn't exposed to this specific vulnerability, though 8.4.17 provides other security fixes for it in various contexts -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38669> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for OS X