Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 : 0036: postgresql:13 (ALINUX3-SA-2023:0036)

high Nessus Plugin ID 236748

Synopsis

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALINUX3-SA-2023:0036 advisory.

Package updates are available for Alibaba Cloud Linux 3 that fix the following vulnerabilities:

CVE-2022-2625:
A vulnerability was found in PostgreSQL. This attack requires permission to create non-temporary objects in at least one schema, the ability to lure or wait for an administrator to create or update an affected extension in that schema, and the ability to lure or wait for a victim to use the object targeted in CREATE OR REPLACE or CREATE IF NOT EXISTS. Given all three prerequisites, this flaw allows an attacker to run arbitrary code as the victim role, which may be a superuser.

CVE-2022-41862:
In PostgreSQL, a modified, unauthenticated server can send an unterminated string during the establishment of Kerberos transport encryption. In certain conditions a server can cause a libpq client to over-read and report an error message containing uninitialized bytes.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Alibaba Cloud Linux 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: 236748

File Name: alinux3_sa_2023-0036.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Alibaba Cloud Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 5/14/2025

Updated: 5/14/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2625

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-docs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-pltcl, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-server-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-upgrade-devel, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-upgrade-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-plpython3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-test-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-plpython3-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-upgrade-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-test-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-contrib, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-docs, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-plperl, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-server, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-contrib-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-pltcl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-plperl-debuginfo, cpe:/o:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-server-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-upgrade, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-test, p-cpe:/a:alibabacloud:alibaba_cloud_linux_3:postgresql-static

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/7/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/11/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2625, CVE-2022-41862

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