SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : postgresql93 (SUSE-SU-2015:0478-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 83695

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

postgresql93 was updated to version 9.3.6 to fix four security issues.

These security issues were fixed :

- CVE-2015-0241: Fix buffer overruns in to_char() (bnc#916953).

- CVE-2015-0243: Fix buffer overruns in contrib/pgcrypto (bnc#916953).

- CVE-2015-0244: Fix possible loss of frontend/backend protocol synchronization after an error (bnc#916953).

- CVE-2014-8161: Fix information leak via constraint-violation error messages (bnc#916953).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2015-118=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-118=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-118=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 83695

File Name: suse_SU-2015-0478-1.nasl

Version: 2.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 5/20/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql93-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql93-contrib-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libecpg6-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql93-contrib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql93-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libecpg6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql93-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql93, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql93-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql93-libs-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpq5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpq5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/23/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/27/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8161, CVE-2015-0241, CVE-2015-0243, CVE-2015-0244

BID: 72538, 72540, 72542, 72543

Detections

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