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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: Subhash Udata <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
Cc: 김주연 <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: CVE-2024-10979 Vulnerability Impact on PostgreSQL 11.10
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 23:35:23 -0500
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"David G. Johnston" <[email protected]> writes:
> On Thursday, November 21, 2024, Subhash Udata <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> The PostgreSQL documentation mentions that the versions with a fix for
>> CVE-2024-10979 are *17.1, 16.5, 15.9, 14.14, 13.17, and 12.21*. However,
>> your reply states that any version greater than 13+ should suffice.
>> Could you please confirm if upgrading to one of the specific versions
>> listed above is mandatory, or is it acceptable to upgrade to any version
>> higher than 13

Minor versions earlier than those do not contain the fix.

> The fact you are on version 11 means you should not expect an answer to the
> question whether this newly discovered CVE affects you - that would be
> expecting support for a long-unsupported version.

The Postgres security team does not ordinarily test out-of-support
branches, so no official answer to that will be forthcoming.
Unofficially, however, I have no doubt that this bug is quite ancient.

			regards, tom lane

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