SUSE SLES12 Security Update : postgresql13 (SUSE-SU-2025:4334-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 278051

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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-2025:4334-1 advisory.

Upgraded to 13.23:

- CVE-2025-12817: Fixed missing check for CREATE privileges on the schema in CREATE STATISTICS (bsc#1253332)
- CVE-2025-12818: Fixed integer overflow in allocation-size calculations within libpq (bsc#1253333)

Other fixes:

- Use %product_libs_llvm_ver to determine the LLVM version.
- Remove conditionals for obsolete PostgreSQL releases.
- Sync spec file from version 18.

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: Medium

ID: 278051

File Name: suse_SU-2025-4334-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 12/10/2025

Updated: 12/10/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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-2025-12818

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql13-plperl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql13-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql13-plpython, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql13, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql13-docs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql13-server-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql13-pltcl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql13-contrib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql13-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: 12/9/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/13/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-12817, CVE-2025-12818

IAVB: 2025-B-0192

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:4334-1

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