SUSE SLES12 Security Update : postgresql17 (SUSE-SU-2025:02987-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 258031

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02987-1 advisory.

Updated to 17.6:
* CVE-2025-8713: Fixed optimizer statistics exposing sampled data within a view, partition, or child table (bsc#1248120)
* CVE-2025-8714: Fixed untrusted data inclusion in pg_dump allows superuser of origin server to execute arbitrary code in psql client (bsc#1248122)
* CVE-2025-8715: Fixed improper neutralization of newlines in pg_dump leading to arbitrary code execution in the psql client and in the restore target server (bsc#1248119)

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 libecpg6, libecpg6-32bit, libpq5 and / or libpq5-32bit packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1248119

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1248120

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1248122

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-August/041361.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8713

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8714

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8715

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 258031

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02987-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/27/2025

Updated: 8/27/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-8715

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:novell:suse_linux:libpq5-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpq5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libecpg6-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libecpg6

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: 8/26/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/14/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-8713, CVE-2025-8714, CVE-2025-8715

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02987-1