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RHEL 10 : postgresql16 (RHSA-2026:3887)

high Nessus Plugin ID 301157

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for postgresql16.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:3887 advisory.

 PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system (DBMS). The base postgresql package contains the client programs that you'll need to access a PostgreSQL DBMS server, as well as HTML documentation for the whole system. These client programs can be located on the same machine as the PostgreSQL server, or on a remote machine that accesses a PostgreSQL server over a network connection.
 The PostgreSQL server can be found in the postgresql-server sub-package.

 Security Fix(es):

 * postgresql: PostgreSQL missing validation of multibyte character length executes arbitrary code (CVE-2026-2006)

 * postgresql: PostgreSQL intarray missing validation of type of input to selectivity estimator executes arbitrary code (CVE-2026-2004)

 * postgresql: PostgreSQL pgcrypto heap buffer overflow executes arbitrary code (CVE-2026-2005)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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 RHEL postgresql16 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:3887.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2439324

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2439325

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2439326

http://www.nessus.org/u?9f4ea330

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:3887

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 301157

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-3887.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/6/2026

Updated: 3/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

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-2026-2006

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-contrib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-private-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-plpython3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-static, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-private-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql16, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-upgrade-devel, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-test-rpm-macros, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-pltcl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-upgrade, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-server-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:postgresql-plperl

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/5/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/12/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-2003, CVE-2026-2004, CVE-2026-2005, CVE-2026-2006

CWE: 120, 1285, 1287

RHSA: 2026:3887