The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2566 advisory.

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

    The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: rh-postgresql96-postgresql     (9.6.10). (BZ#1614340)

    Security Fix(es):

    * postgresql: Certain host connection parameters defeat client-side security defenses (CVE-2018-10915)

    * postgresql: Missing authorization and memory disclosure in INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE statements     (CVE-2018-10925)

    * postgresql: Memory disclosure in JSON functions (CVE-2017-15098)

    * postgresql: pg_upgrade creates file of sensitive metadata under prevailing umask (CVE-2018-1053)

    * postgresql: Uncontrolled search path element in pg_dump and other client applications (CVE-2018-1058)

    * postgresql: INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE fails to enforce SELECT privileges (CVE-2017-15099)

    * postgresql: Too-permissive access control list on function pg_logfile_rotate() (CVE-2018-1115)

    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.

    Red Hat would like to thank the PostgreSQL project for reporting CVE-2018-10915, CVE-2018-10925,     CVE-2017-15098, CVE-2018-1053, CVE-2017-15099, and CVE-2018-1115. Upstream acknowledges Andrew Krasichkov     as the original reporter of CVE-2018-10915; David Rowley as the original reporter of CVE-2017-15098; Tom     Lane as the original reporter of CVE-2018-1053; Dean Rasheed as the original reporter of CVE-2017-15099;
    and Stephen Frost as the original reporter of CVE-2018-1115.

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.

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RHEL 6 / 7 : rh-postgresql96-postgresql (RHSA-2018:2566)

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