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VPR Score: 6.7
Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
Description
This update for postgresql, postgresql13 fixes the following issues :
This update ships postgresql13.
Upgrade to version 13.1 :
CVE-2020-25695, bsc#1178666: Block DECLARE CURSOR ... WITH HOLD and firing of deferred triggers within index expressions and materialized view queries.
CVE-2020-25694, bsc#1178667: a) Fix usage of complex connection-string parameters in pg_dump, pg_restore, clusterdb, reindexdb, and vacuumdb.
b) When psql's \connect command re-uses connection parameters, ensure that all non-overridden parameters from a previous connection string are re-used.
CVE-2020-25696, bsc#1178668: Prevent psql's \gset command from modifying specially-treated variables.
Fix recently-added timetz test case so it works when the USA is not observing daylight savings time. (obsoletes postgresql-timetz.patch)
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/2111/
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/release-13-1.html
Initial packaging of PostgreSQL 13 :
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/2077/
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/release-13.html
bsc#1178961: %ghost the symlinks to pg_config and ecpg.
Changes in postgresql wrapper package :
Bump major version to 13.
We also transfer PostgreSQL 9.4.26 to the new package layout in SLE12-SP2 and newer. Reflect this in the conflict with postgresql94.
Also conflict with PostgreSQL versions before 9.
Conflicting with older versions is not limited to SLE.
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 the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Server Applications 15-SP2 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Server-Applications-15-SP2-2021-175=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Packagehub Subpackages 15-SP2 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Packagehub-Subpackages-15-SP2-2021-175=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15-SP2 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP2-2021-175=1