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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : postgresql96 (SUSE-SU-2017:2356-1)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 102974
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
This update for postgresql96 fixes the following issues :- CVE-2017-7547: Further restrict visibility of pg_user_mappings.umoptions, to protect passwords stored as user mapping options. (bsc#1051685)
- CVE-2017-7546: Disallow empty passwords in all password-based authentication methods. (bsc#1051684)
- CVE-2017-7548: lo_put() function ignores ACLs.
(bsc#1053259) The changelog for this release is here:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/release-9-6-4 .html
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 6:zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-6-2017-1461=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP3-2017-1461=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2017-1461=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP1:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP1-2017-1461=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-2017-1461=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2017-1461=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP3-2017-1461=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-1461=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP1-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2017-1461=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-LTSS:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2017-1461=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP3:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP3-2017-1461=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2017-1461=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.
See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1051684
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1051685
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1053259
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/release-9-6-4.html
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7546/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7547/
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 102974
File Name: suse_SU-2017-2356-1.nasl
Version: 3.11
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 9/6/2017
Updated: 1/6/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 5.9
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 5.5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Temporal Score: 8.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libecpg6-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql96-contrib-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libecpg6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql96-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql96-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql96-libs-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql96, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql96-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql96-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpq5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql96-contrib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpq5
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 9/5/2017
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/16/2017