Fedora 18 : postgresql-9.2.3-1.fc18 (2013-2123)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 64554

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- Update to new upstream releases, to fix CVE-2013-0255 and other issues described at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/static/release-9-2-3.
html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-8.
html

- Make the package build with selinux option disabled

- Include old version of pg_controldata in postgresql-upgrade subpackage

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

Solution

Update the affected postgresql package.

See Also

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-8.html

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/release-9-2-3.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907892

http://www.nessus.org/u?1aa1894c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 64554

File Name: fedora_2013-2123.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/11/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:postgresql, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/8/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0255

BID: 57844

FEDORA: 2013-2123