RHEL 7 : rh-postgresql12-postgresql (RHSA-2021:5197)

high Nessus Plugin ID 156128

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for rh-postgresql12-postgresql.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:5197 advisory.

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system (DBMS).

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-postgresql12-postgresql (12.9).

Security Fix(es):

* postgresql: memory disclosure in certain queries (CVE-2021-3677)

* postgresql: server processes unencrypted bytes from man-in-the-middle (CVE-2021-23214)

* postgresql: libpq processes unencrypted bytes from man-in-the-middle (CVE-2021-23222)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the RHEL rh-postgresql12-postgresql package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:5197.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a19ce449

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:5197

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2001857

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022666

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2022675

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 156128

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-5197.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/16/2021

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-23214

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/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: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql12-postgresql-server-syspaths, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql12-postgresql-plpython, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql12-postgresql-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql12-postgresql-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql12-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql12-postgresql-contrib-syspaths, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql12-postgresql-plperl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql12-postgresql-pltcl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql12-postgresql-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql12-postgresql-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql12-postgresql-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql12-postgresql-syspaths, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql12-postgresql-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql12-postgresql-contrib

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/16/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-23214, CVE-2021-23222, CVE-2021-3677

CWE: 200, 522, 89

RHSA: 2021:5197