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RHEL 8 : postgresql-jdbc (RHSA-2023:2867)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 175830

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for postgresql-jdbc.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:2867 advisory.

 PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system. The postgresql-jdbc package includes the .jar files needed for Java programs to access a PostgreSQL database.

 Security Fix(es):

 * postgresql-jdbc: Information leak of prepared statement data due to insecure temporary file permissions (CVE-2022-41946)

 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.

 Additional Changes:

 For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Release Notes linked from 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL postgresql-jdbc package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:2867.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?17155073

http://www.nessus.org/u?cfe2de5f

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2153399

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2867

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 175830

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-2867.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/16/2023

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: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-41946

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-jdbc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-jdbc-javadoc

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/16/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/23/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-41946

CWE: 377

RHSA: 2023:2867