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Debian DLA-592-1 : postgresql-9.1 security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 92873

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been found in PostgreSQL, a SQL database system.

CVE-2016-5423

Karthikeyan Jambu Rajaraman discovered that nested CASE-WHEN expressions are not properly evaluated, potentially leading to a crash or allowing to disclose portions of server memory.

CVE-2016-5424

Nathan Bossart discovered that special characters in database and role names are not properly handled, potentially leading to the execution of commands with superuser privileges, when a superuser executes pg_dumpall or other routine maintenance operations.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 9.1.23-0+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql-9.1 packages.

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/2016/08/msg00017.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/postgresql-9.1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 92873

File Name: debian_DLA-592.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-9.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-9.1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-client-9.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-contrib-9.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-doc-9.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-plperl-9.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-plpython-9.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-plpython3-9.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-pltcl-9.1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-server-dev-9.1, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libecpg-compat3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libecpg-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libecpg6, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpgtypes3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpq-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libpq5

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 8/11/2016