The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2011-0197 advisory.

    - Update to PostgreSQL 8.4.7, for various fixes described at       http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-4-7.html       http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-4-6.html       including the fix for CVE-2010-4015     Resolves: #672634
    - Update to PostgreSQL 8.4.5, for various fixes described at       http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-4-5.html       including the fix for CVE-2010-3433     Resolves: #640069

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : postgresql (ELSA-2011-0197)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 68193

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