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SUSE SLES15 Security Update : postgresql17, postgresql18 (SUSE-SU-2025:4364-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 278496

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-2025:4364-1 advisory.

 Changes in postgresql18:

 - Fix build with uring for post SLE15 code streams.

 Update to 18.1:

 * https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/p-3171/
 * https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/18.1/
 * bsc#1253332, CVE-2025-12817: Missing check for CREATE privileges on the schema in CREATE STATISTICS allowed table owners to create statistics in any schema, potentially leading to unexpected naming conflicts.
 * bsc#1253333, CVE-2025-12818: Several places in libpq were not sufficiently careful about computing the required size of a memory allocation. Sufficiently large inputs could cause integer overflow, resulting in an undersized buffer, which would then lead to writing past the end of the buffer.

 - pg_config --libs returns -lnuma so we need to require it.

 Update to 18.0:

 * https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/p-3142/
 * https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/release-18.html


 Changes in postgresql17:

 Update to 17.7:

 * https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/p-3171/
 * https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/17.7/
 * bsc#1253332, CVE-2025-12817: Missing check for CREATE privileges on the schema in CREATE STATISTICS allowed table owners to create statistics in any schema, potentially leading to unexpected naming conflicts.
 * bsc#1253333, CVE-2025-12818: Several places in libpq were not sufficiently careful about computing the required size of a memory allocation. Sufficiently large inputs could cause integer overflow, resulting in an undersized buffer, which would then lead to writing past the end of the buffer.

 - switch library to pg 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.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1253332

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1253333

http://www.nessus.org/u?3033274d

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-12817

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-12818

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 278496

File Name: suse_SU-2025-4364-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/12/2025

Updated: 12/12/2025

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:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libecpg6, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpq5, 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: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, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql-llvmjit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql-llvmjit-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql17, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql17-contrib, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql17-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql17-docs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql17-llvmjit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql17-llvmjit-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql17-plperl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql17-plpython, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql17-pltcl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql17-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:postgresql17-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: 12/11/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/13/2025

Reference Information

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

IAVB: 2025-B-0192

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:4364-1