Something which affects us all...
http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1456/
From the article:
"The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released a security
update to all current versions of the PostgreSQL database system,
including versions 9.2.4, 9.1.9, 9.0.13, and 8.4.17. This update fixes
a high-exposure security vulnerability in versions 9.0 and later. All
users of the affected versions are strongly urged to apply the update
immediately.
"A major security issue fixed in this release, CVE-2013-1899, makes it
possible for a connection request containing a database name that
begins with "-" to be crafted that can damage or destroy files within
a server's data directory. Anyone with access to the port the
PostgreSQL server listens on can initiate this request. This issue was
discovered by Mitsumasa Kondo and Kyotaro Horiguchi of NTT Open Source
Software Center."
The PostgreSQL developers have been working with various Linux
distributions before disclosing the vulnerability, so updated packages
should be available shortly if they are not already in your
distribution's repository. Consider upgrading immediately,
/especially/ if your OpenERP database is hosted remotely.
