Fedora 10 : postgresql-8.3.8-1.fc10 (2009-9474)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 40954

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to PostgreSQL 8.3.8, for various fixes described at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3-8.html including three security issues

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

Solution

Update the affected postgresql package.

See Also

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/release-8-3-8.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522084

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522085

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522092

http://www.nessus.org/u?9eadb964

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 40954

File Name: fedora_2009-9474.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/14/2009

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:postgresql, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/11/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6600, CVE-2009-3229, CVE-2009-3230, CVE-2009-3231

BID: 36314

CWE: 264, 287

FEDORA: 2009-9474