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EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : postgresql (EulerOS-SA-2017-1340)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 105321

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

According to the versions of the postgresql packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 - Privilege escalation flaws were found in the initialization scripts of PostgreSQL. An attacker with access to the postgres user account could use these flaws to obtain root access on the server machine.
 (CVE-2017-12172, CVE-2017-15097)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected postgresql packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3a35dd05

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 105321

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2017-1340.nasl

Version: 3.16

Type: local

Published: 12/18/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:postgresql, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:postgresql-contrib, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:postgresql-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:postgresql-docs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:postgresql-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:postgresql-plperl, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:postgresql-plpython, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:postgresql-pltcl, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:postgresql-server, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:postgresql-test, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Patch Publication Date: 12/14/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-12172, CVE-2017-15097