SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : postgresql93 (SUSE-SU-2015:1264-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 84896

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.
html

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/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3167/

http://www.nessus.org/u?bc9dab58

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 84896

File Name: suse_SU-2015-1264-1.nasl

Version: 2.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/21/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, 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: 6/24/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3165, CVE-2015-3166, CVE-2015-3167

BID: 74787, 74789, 74790