SUSE SLES15: libecpg6 / libpq5 / libpq5-32bit / postgresql / postgresql-contrib / etc (SUSE-SU-2022:2893-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 164447

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:2893-1 advisory.

- Upgrade to 10.22:
- CVE-2022-2625: Fixed an issue where extension scripts would replace objects not belonging to that extension (bsc#1202368).

- Upgrade to 10.21:
- CVE-2022-1552: Confined additional operations within 'security restricted operation' sandboxes (bsc#1199475).

- Upgrade to 10.20 (bsc#1195680)
- Add constraints file with 12GB of memory for s390x as a workaround (boo#1190740)

- Upgrade to version 10.19 (bsc#1192516):
- CVE-2021-23214: Made the server reject extraneous data after an SSL or GSS encryption handshake
- CVE-2021-23222: Made libpq reject extraneous data after an SSL or GSS encryption handshake

- Fix for build with llvm12 on s390x. (bsc#1185952)
- Re-enable 'icu' for PostgreSQL 10. (bsc#1179945)
- Add postgresqlXX-server-devel as a dependency for postgresql13-server-devel. (bsc#1187751)
- Upgrade to version 10.18. (bsc#1190177)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 164447

File Name: suse_SU-2022-2893-1.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 8/26/2022

Updated: 6/25/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.82

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-23214

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-1552

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libecpg6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpq5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql10, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql10-contrib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql10-plperl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql10-plpython, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql10-pltcl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql10-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql10-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql-contrib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql-docs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql10-docs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpq5-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql-plperl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql-plpython, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql-pltcl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql-server-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/25/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-23214, CVE-2021-23222, CVE-2022-1552, CVE-2022-2625

IAVB: 2021-B-0067-S, 2022-B-0015-S, 2022-B-0028-S

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2022:2893-1

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