SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : postgresql94 (SUSE-SU-2016:0482-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 88835

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update of postgresql94 to 9.4.5 fixes the following issues :

- CVE-2015-5289: json or jsonb input values constructed from arbitrary user input could have crashed the PostgreSQL server and caused a denial of service (bsc#949670)

- CVE-2015-5288: crypt() (pgCrypto extension) couldi potentially be exploited to read a few additional bytes of memory (bsc#949669)

Also contains all changes and bugfixes in the upstream 9.4.5 release:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-4-5.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 Manager 2.1 :

zypper in -t patch sleman21-postgreqsql94-20160120-12409=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp4-postgreqsql94-20160120-12409=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp3-postgreqsql94-20160120-12409=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMWare 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-postgreqsql94-20160120-12409=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch slessp4-postgreqsql94-20160120-12409=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-postgreqsql94-20160120-12409=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp4-postgreqsql94-20160120-12409=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-postgreqsql94-20160120-12409=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp4-postgreqsql94-20160120-12409=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-postgreqsql94-20160120-12409=1

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 88835

File Name: suse_SU-2016-0482-1.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 2/18/2016

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: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql94, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpq5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql94-docs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libecpg6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql94-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql94-contrib

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: 2/16/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/26/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-5288, CVE-2015-5289

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