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Fedora 14 : postgresql-8.4.7-1.fc14 (2011-0990)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 51897

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to PostgreSQL 8.4.7, for various fixes described at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-4-7.html including the fix for CVE-2010-4015

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/8.4/release-8-4-7.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664402

http://www.nessus.org/u?9453ad10

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 51897

File Name: fedora_2011-0990.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/8/2011

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:14, 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: 2/1/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-4015

BID: 46084

FEDORA: 2011-0990