Fedora 12 : postgresql-8.4.5-1.fc12 (2010-15954)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 50029

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Update to PostgreSQL 8.4.5, for various fixes described at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release-8-4-5.html including the fix for CVE-2010-3433

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected postgresql package.

See Also

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/release-8-4-5.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=639371

http://www.nessus.org/u?b84b418d

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 50029

File Name: fedora_2010-15954.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/20/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:postgresql, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-3433

BID: 43747

FEDORA: 2010-15954