4.3 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
10.1%
John Heasman and others discovered a bug in the PostgreSQL engine which would allow any user load an arbitrary local library into it.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-668. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(16342);
script_version("1.20");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-0227");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"668");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-668-1 : postgresql - privilege escalation");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"John Heasman and others discovered a bug in the PostgreSQL engine
which would allow any user load an arbitrary local library into it."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=293125"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-668"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the postgresql packages.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 7.2.1-2woody7."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_cwe_id(94);
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/02/04");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/02/10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2005/01/31");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2021 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"libecpg3", reference:"7.2.1-2woody7")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"libpgperl", reference:"7.2.1-2woody7")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"libpgsql2", reference:"7.2.1-2woody7")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"libpgtcl", reference:"7.2.1-2woody7")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"odbc-postgresql", reference:"7.2.1-2woody7")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"pgaccess", reference:"7.2.1-2woody7")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"postgresql", reference:"7.2.1-2woody7")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"postgresql-client", reference:"7.2.1-2woody7")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"postgresql-contrib", reference:"7.2.1-2woody7")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"postgresql-dev", reference:"7.2.1-2woody7")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"postgresql-doc", reference:"7.2.1-2woody7")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"3.0", prefix:"python-pygresql", reference:"7.2.1-2woody7")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | postgresql | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:postgresql |
debian | debian_linux | 3.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0 |