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RHEL 6 / 7 : postgresql92-postgresql (RHSA-2015:2083)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 210218

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for postgresql92-postgresql.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 / 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2015:2083 advisory.

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

 A memory leak error was discovered in the crypt() function of the pgCrypto extension. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this flaw to disclose a limited amount of the server memory. (CVE-2015-5288)

 A stack overflow flaw was discovered in the way the PostgreSQL core server processed certain JSON or JSONB input. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this flaw to crash the server backend by sending specially crafted JSON or JSONB input. (CVE-2015-5289)

 Please note that SSL renegotiation is now disabled by default. For more information, please refer to PostgreSQL's 2015-10-08 Security Update Release notes, linked to in the References section.

 All PostgreSQL users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues. If the postgresql92-postgresql service is running, it will be automatically restarted after installing this update.

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.

Solution

Update the RHEL postgresql92-postgresql package based on the guidance in RHSA-2015:2083.

See Also

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

http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1615/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270306

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1270312

http://www.nessus.org/u?7a1a63bd

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:2083

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 210218

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2015-2083.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/4/2024

Updated: 11/4/2024

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: 5.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-5289

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql92-postgresql-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql92-postgresql-test, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql92-postgresql-contrib, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql92-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql92-postgresql-pltcl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql92-postgresql-upgrade, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql92-postgresql-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql92-postgresql-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql92-postgresql-plpython, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql92-postgresql-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql92-postgresql-plperl

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: 11/18/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/8/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5288, CVE-2015-5289

CWE: 200, 674

RHSA: 2015:2083