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Debian DLA-227-1 : postgresql-8.4 update
critical Nessus Plugin ID 83905
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Synopsis
The remote Debian host is missing a security update.Description
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in PostgreSQL, a relational database server system. The 8.4 branch is EOLed upstream, but still present in Debian squeeze. This new LTS minor version contains the fixes that were applied upstream to the 9.0.20 version, backported to 8.4.22 which was the last version officially released by the PostgreSQL developers. This LTS effort for squeeze-lts is a community project sponsored by credativ GmbH.CVE-2015-3165: Remote crash SSL clients disconnecting just before the authentication timeout expires can cause the server to crash.
CVE-2015-3166: Information exposure The replacement implementation of snprintf() failed to check for errors reported by the underlying system library calls; the main case that might be missed is out-of-memory situations. In the worst case this might lead to information exposure.
CVE-2015-3167: Possible side-channel key exposure In contrib/pgcrypto, some cases of decryption with an incorrect key could report other error message texts. Fix by using a one-size-fits-all message.
Note that the next round of minor releases for PostgreSQL have already been scheduled for early June 2015. There will be a corresponding 8.4.22lts3 update at the same time.
NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Upgrade the affected packages.See Also
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/05/msg00018.html
https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/postgresql-8.4
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 83905
File Name: debian_DLA-227.nasl
Version: 2.12
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Debian Local Security Checks
Published: 6/1/2015
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, 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:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-contrib-8.4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-plpython-8.4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-plperl-8.4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpq5, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-8.4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-doc-8.4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-server-dev-8.4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-client, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpq-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpgtypes3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libecpg-compat3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libecpg6, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libecpg-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-pltcl-8.4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-client-8.4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-contrib
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 5/29/2015
Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2015