openSUSE 16 Security Update : postgresql13 (openSUSE-SU-2026:20449-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 304860

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2026:20449-1 advisory.

Security fixes:

- CVE-2025-12817: Fixed 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#1253332)
- CVE-2025-12818: Fixed 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 (bsc#1253333)

Other fixes:

- Update to 13.23

* https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/p-3171/
* https://www.postgresql.org/docs/release/13.23

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: 304860

File Name: openSUSE-2026-20449-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 4/4/2026

Updated: 4/4/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, 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:opensuse:16.0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql13-plpython, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql13-contrib, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql13, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql13-plperl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql13-server-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql13-llvmjit-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql13-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql13-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql13-pltcl, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql13-test, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:postgresql13-llvmjit

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: 3/30/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/13/2025

Reference Information

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

IAVB: 2025-B-0192-S

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