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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 / 11.10 : postgresql-8.3, postgresql-8.4, postgresql-9.1 vulnerabilities (USN-1378-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 58168

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly checked permissions on functions called by a trigger. An attacker could attach a trigger to a table they owned and possibly escalate privileges. (CVE-2012-0866)

It was discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly truncated SSL certificate name checks to 32 characters. If a host name was exactly 32 characters, this issue could be exploited by an attacker to spoof the SSL certificate. This issue affected Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, Ubuntu 10.10, Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10. (CVE-2012-0867)

It was discovered that the PostgreSQL pg_dump utility incorrectly filtered line breaks in object names. An attacker could create object names that execute arbitrary SQL commands when a dump script is reloaded. (CVE-2012-0868).

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 postgresql-8.3, postgresql-8.4 and / or postgresql-9.1 packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1378-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 58168

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1378-1.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/29/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-8.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-8.4, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-9.1, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/28/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/18/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-0866, CVE-2012-0867, CVE-2012-0868

BID: 52188

USN: 1378-1