Fedora 16 : postgresql-9.1.5-1.fc16 (2012-12156)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 61671

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to PostgreSQL 9.1.5, for various fixes described at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-5.html including the fixes for CVE-2012-3488, CVE-2012-3489

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/9.1/release-9-1-5.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849172

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=849173

http://www.nessus.org/u?425bbc10

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 61671

File Name: fedora_2012-12156.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/27/2012

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: 4.9

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:postgresql, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3488, CVE-2012-3489

BID: 55072, 55074

FEDORA: 2012-12156