RHEL 7 : rh-postgresql10-postgresql (RHSA-2018:3757)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 194016

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for rh-postgresql10-postgresql.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3757 advisory.

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

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-postgresql10-postgresql (10.6).
(BZ#1649369)

Security Fix(es):

* postgresql: SQL injection in pg_upgrade and pg_dump, via CREATE TRIGGER ... REFERENCING (CVE-2018-16850)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, 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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL rh-postgresql10-postgresql package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:3757.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 194016

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-3757.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/27/2024

Updated: 11/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16850

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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-postgresql10-postgresql-contrib-syspaths, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-syspaths, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-libs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-plpython, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-contrib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-plperl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-server-syspaths, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rh-postgresql10-postgresql-pltcl

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: 12/3/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/8/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16850

CWE: 89

RHSA: 2018:3757

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