openSUSE Security Update : postgresql / postgresql-libs (openSUSE-SU-2012:1251-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 74766

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

- Security and bugfix release 9.1.5 :

- Ignore SECURITY DEFINER and SET attributes for a procedural language's call handler (CVE-2012-2655) bnc#765069

- Fix incorrect password transformation in 'contrib/pgcrypto''s DES crypt() function (CVE-2012-2143) bnc#766799

- Prevent access to external files/URLs via 'contrib/xml2''s xslt_process() (CVE-2012-3488) bnc#776523

- Prevent access to external files/URLs via XML entity references (CVE-2012-3489) bnc#776524

- See the release notes for the rest of the changes:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release.html /usr/share/doc/packages/postgresql/HISTORY

Solution

Update the affected postgresql / postgresql-libs packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 74766

File Name: openSUSE-2012-650.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libecpg6, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql-libs-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpq5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql-pltcl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql-plperl-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpq5, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql-plperl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpq5-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql-pltcl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql-plpython, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql-plpython-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql-contrib-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql-devel-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql-contrib, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpq5-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libecpg6-debuginfo

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/18/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-2143, CVE-2012-2655, CVE-2012-3488, CVE-2012-3489

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