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Fedora 11 : postgresql-8.3.11-1.fc11 (2010-8723)

high Nessus Plugin ID 47508

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to new minor releases, primarily to fix CVE-2010-1169 and CVE-2010-1170, but see also other fixes at * http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3-11.html

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-8-3-11.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582615

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583072

http://www.nessus.org/u?b3dd3c0b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 47508

File Name: fedora_2010-8723.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:11, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:postgresql

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/18/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1169, CVE-2010-1170

BID: 40215

FEDORA: 2010-8723