The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5038-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the PostgresQL planner could create incorrect plans in certain circumstances. A     remote attacker could use this issue to cause PostgreSQL to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or     possibly obtain sensitive information from memory. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu     21.04. (CVE-2021-3677)

    It was discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled certain SSL renegotiation ClientHello messages from     clients. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PostgreSQL to crash, resulting in a     denial of service. (CVE-2021-3449)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : PostgreSQL vulnerabilities (USN-5038-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 152539

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