The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2499-1 advisory.

    Stephen Frost discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly displayed certain values in error messages. An     authenticated user could gain access to seeing certain values, contrary to expected permissions.
    (CVE-2014-8161)

    Andres Freund, Peter Geoghegan and Noah Misch discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled buffers in     to_char functions. An authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PostgreSQL to crash,     resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-0241)

    It was discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled memory in the pgcrypto extension. An authenticated     attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PostgreSQL to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-0243)

    Emil Lenngren discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled extended protocol message reading. An     authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PostgreSQL to crash, resulting in a denial     of service, or possibly inject query messages. (CVE-2015-0244)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : PostgreSQL vulnerabilities (USN-2499-1)

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