Debian DSA-3269-1 : postgresql-9.1 - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 83786

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities have been found in PostgreSQL-9.1, a SQL database system.

- CVE-2015-3165 (Remote crash) SSL clients disconnecting just before the authentication timeout expires can cause the server to crash.

- CVE-2015-3166 (Information exposure) The replacement implementation of snprintf() failed to check for errors reported by the underlying system library calls; the main case that might be missed is out-of-memory situations. In the worst case this might lead to information exposure.

- CVE-2015-3167 (Possible side-channel key exposure) In contrib/pgcrypto, some cases of decryption with an incorrect key could report other error message texts.
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Solution

Upgrade the postgresql-9.1 packages.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 9.1.16-0+deb7u1.

For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 9.1.16-0+deb8u1. (Jessie contains a reduced postgresql-9.1 package; only CVE-2015-3166 is fixed in the produced binary package postgresql-plperl-9.1. We recommend to upgrade to postgresql-9.4 to get the full set of fixes. See the Jessie release notes for details.)

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 83786

File Name: debian_DSA-3269.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 5/26/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: 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: 6.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql-9.1, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/22/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2015

Reference Information

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

BID: 74787, 74789, 74790

DSA: 3269

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