SUSE SLES15 Security Update : postgresql16 (SUSE-SU-2024:3159-2)

high Nessus Plugin ID 209832

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3159-2 advisory.

- Upgrade to 16.4 (bsc#1229013)
- CVE-2024-7348: PostgreSQL relation replacement during pg_dump executes arbitrary SQL. (bsc#1229013)
- CVE-2024-4317: Restrict visibility of pg_stats_ext and pg_stats_ext_exprs entries to the table owner.
See the release notes for the steps that have to be taken to fix existing PostgreSQL instances.
(bsc#1224038)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE 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 affected postgresql16-llvmjit and / or postgresql16-test packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 209832

File Name: suse_SU-2024-3159-2.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 10/27/2024

Updated: 10/27/2024

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: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql16-test, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql16-llvmjit

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: 10/24/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-4317, CVE-2024-7348

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2024:3159-2

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