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Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : postgresql-7.4, postgresql-8.0, postgresql vulnerability (USN-258-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 21066

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Akio Ishida discovered that the SET SESSION AUTHORIZATION command did not properly verify the validity of its argument. An authenticated PostgreSQL user could exploit this to crash the server.

However, this does not affect the official binary Ubuntu packages. The crash can only be triggered if the source package is rebuilt with assertions enabled (which is not the case in the official binary packages).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 21066

File Name: ubuntu_USN-258-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/13/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpq3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-client-7.4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-8.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plpython-7.4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-doc-8.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plpython-8.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libecpg5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-contrib-8.0, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libecpg4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-doc-7.4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-pltcl-8.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpq4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-server-dev-8.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plperl-7.4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-contrib-7.4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpq-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-contrib, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-pltcl-7.4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-server-dev-7.4, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-7.4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libecpg-compat2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpgtypes2, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpgtcl-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libecpg-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpgtcl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-client-8.0, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plperl-8.0

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 2/27/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0678

USN: 258-1