Debian DLA-1271-1 : postgresql-9.1 security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 106659

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

A vulnerabilities has been found in the PostgreSQL database system :

CVE-2018-1053

Tom Lane discovered that pg_upgrade, a tool used to upgrade PostgreSQL database clusters, creates temporary files containing password hashes that are world-readable.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', this problem has been fixed in version 9.1.24lts2-0+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql-9.1 packages.

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 106659

File Name: debian_DLA-1271.nasl

Version: 3.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 2/8/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/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:debian:debian_linux:libecpg6, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpgtypes3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpq-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpq5, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-9.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-9.1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-client-9.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-contrib-9.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-doc-9.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-plperl-9.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-plpython-9.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-plpython3-9.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-pltcl-9.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-server-dev-9.1, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libecpg-compat3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libecpg-dev

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/7/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1053

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