Fedora 17 : postgresql-9.1.3-1.fc17 (2012-2508)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 58257

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to latest Postgres releases --- resolves some security and data loss bugs http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-3.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0-7.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/9.0/release-9-0-7.html

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/release-9-1-3.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=797222

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=797915

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=797917

http://www.nessus.org/u?cbad45ba

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 58257

File Name: fedora_2012-2508.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/7/2012

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: 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:17

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/27/2012

Reference Information

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

BID: 52188

FEDORA: 2012-2508