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openSUSE Security Update : postgresql96 (openSUSE-2018-1278)

high Nessus Plugin ID 118448

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for postgresql96 to 9.6.10 fixes the following issues :

These security issues were fixed :

 - CVE-2018-10915: libpq failed to properly reset its internal state between connections. If an affected version of libpq was used with 'host' or 'hostaddr' connection parameters from untrusted input, attackers could have bypassed client-side connection security features, obtain access to higher privileged connections or potentially cause other impact SQL injection, by causing the PQescape() functions to malfunction (bsc#1104199)

 - CVE-2018-10925: Add missing authorization check on certain statements involved with 'INSERT ... ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE'. An attacker with 'CREATE TABLE' privileges could have exploited this to read arbitrary bytes server memory. If the attacker also had certain 'INSERT' and limited 'UPDATE' privileges to a particular table, they could have exploited this to update other columns in the same table (bsc#1104202)

For addition details please see https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-6-10.html

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

Solution

Update the affected postgresql96 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1104199

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1104202

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/release-9-6-10.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 118448

File Name: openSUSE-2018-1278.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/26/2018

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql96, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql96-contrib, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql96-contrib-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql96-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql96-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql96-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql96-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql96-libs-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql96-plperl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql96-plperl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql96-plpython, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql96-plpython-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql96-pltcl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql96-pltcl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql96-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql96-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql96-test, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3

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

Patch Publication Date: 10/25/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10915, CVE-2018-10925