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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : PostgreSQL vulnerabilities (USN-3066-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 93047

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Synopsis

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

Description

Heikki Linnakangas discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled certain nested CASE/WHEN expressions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PostgreSQL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-5423)

Nathan Bossart discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled special characters in database and role names. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. (CVE-2016-5424).

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3066-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 93047

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3066-1.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/19/2016

Updated: 10/20/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-5423

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.3

Temporal Score: 7.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-9.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-9.5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-client-9.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-client-9.5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-contrib-9.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-contrib-9.5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plperl-9.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plperl-9.5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plpython-9.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plpython-9.5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plpython3-9.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plpython3-9.5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-pltcl-9.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-pltcl-9.5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-server-dev-9.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-server-dev-9.5, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libecpg-compat3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libecpg-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libecpg6, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpgtypes3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpq-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpq5

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/9/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-5423, CVE-2016-5424

USN: 3066-1