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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : postgresql93 (SUSE-SU-2015:1264-1)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 84896
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
PostgreSQL was updated to the security and bugfix release 9.3.8 including 9.3.7.Security issues fixed :
- CVE-2015-3165, bsc#931972: Avoid possible crash when client disconnects just before the authentication timeout expires.
- CVE-2015-3166, bsc#931973: Consistently check for failure of the printf() family of functions.
- CVE-2015-3167, bsc#931974: In contrib/pgcrypto, uniformly report decryption failures as 'Wrong key or corrupt data'
Bugs fixed :
- Protect against wraparound of multixact member IDs.
- Avoid failures while fsync'ing data directory during crash restart.
- Fix pg_get_functiondef() to show functions' LEAKPROOF property, if set.
- Allow libpq to use TLS protocol versions beyond v1.
- For the full release notes, see the following two URLs http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release-9-3-8.
html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/release-9-3-7.
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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-12-2015-328=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-328=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-328=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.
See Also
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/release-9-3-7.html
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/release-9-3-8.html
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=931972
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=931973
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=931974
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3165/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3166/
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 84896
File Name: suse_SU-2015-1264-1.nasl
Version: 2.16
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 7/21/2015
Updated: 1/6/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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:libecpg6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libecpg6-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpq5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpq5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql93, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql93-contrib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql93-contrib-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql93-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql93-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql93-libs-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql93-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql93-server-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12
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: 6/24/2015
Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2015