The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-1475 advisory.

    [8.4.18-1]
    - Update to PostgreSQL 8.4.18, for various fixes described at       http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-4-14.html       http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-4-15.html       http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-4-16.html       http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-4-17.html       http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-4-18.html       including fixes for CVE-2013-0255, CVE-2013-1900 (#1017837)

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

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

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Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : postgresql / and / postgresql84 (ELSA-2013-1475)

high Nessus Plugin ID 70692

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