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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : pygresql vulnerability (USN-870-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 43108

Synopsis

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

Description

Steffen Joeris discovered that PyGreSQL 3.8 did not use PostgreSQL's safe string and bytea functions in its own escaping functions. As a result, applications written to use PyGreSQL's escaping functions are vulnerable to SQL injections when processing certain multi-byte character sequences. Because the safe functions require a database connection, to maintain backwards compatibility, pg.escape_string() and pg.escape_bytea() are still available, but applications will have to be adjusted to use the new pyobj.escape_string() and pyobj.escape_bytea() functions. For example, code containing :

import pg connection = pg.connect(...) escaped = pg.escape_string(untrusted_input)

should be adjusted to use :

import pg connection = pg.connect(...) escaped = connection.escape_string(untrusted_input).

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 python-pygresql and / or python-pygresql-dbg packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/870-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 43108

File Name: ubuntu_USN-870-1.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/11/2009

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: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-pygresql-dbg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:python-pygresql, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/10/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2940

USN: 870-1