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EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : postgresql (EulerOS-SA-2016-1001)

high Nessus Plugin ID 99764

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the postgresql packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the PostgreSQL handling code for regular expressions. A remote attacker could use a specially crafted regular expression to cause PostgreSQL to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code.(CVE-2016-0773)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS 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

http://www.nessus.org/u?19a11099

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 99764

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2016-1001.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Published: 5/1/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:postgresql-contrib, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:postgresql-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:postgresql-docs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:postgresql-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:postgresql-plperl, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:postgresql-plpython, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:postgresql-pltcl, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:postgresql-server, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:postgresql-test, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:postgresql

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

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Patch Publication Date: 3/2/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-0773