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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : PostgreSQL vulnerabilities (USN-2621-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 83862

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Synopsis

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

Description

Benkocs Norbert Attila discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled authentication timeouts. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause the unauthenticated session to crash, possibly leading to a security issue. (CVE-2015-3165)

Noah Misch discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled certain standard library function return values, possibly leading to security issues. (CVE-2015-3166)

Noah Misch discovered that the pgcrypto function could return different error messages when decrypting using an incorrect key, possibly leading to a security issue. (CVE-2015-3167).

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-2621-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 83862

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2621-1.nasl

Version: 2.19

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/27/2015

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-3166

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-9.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-client-9.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-contrib-9.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plperl-9.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plpython-9.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plpython3-9.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-pltcl-9.3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-server-dev-9.3, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-: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: 5/25/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/28/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-3165, CVE-2015-3166, CVE-2015-3167

BID: 74787, 74789, 74790

USN: 2621-1