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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : postgresql16 (SUSE-SU-2024:3181-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 206869

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLES_SAP12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3181-1 advisory.

 - Upgrade to 16.4 (bsc#1229013)
 - CVE-2024-7348: PostgreSQL relation replacement during pg_dump executes arbitrary SQL. (bsc#1229013)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1229013

http://www.nessus.org/u?1dbf6a10

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-7348

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 206869

File Name: suse_SU-2024-3181-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/10/2024

Updated: 11/22/2024

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-7348

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql16, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql16-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql16-pltcl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql16-server-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libecpg6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpq5-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql16-plpython, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql16-plperl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libecpg6-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql16-docs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql16-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpq5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql16-contrib

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/9/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/8/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-7348

IAVB: 2024-B-0117-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:3181-1