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Scientific Linux Security Update : postgresql and postgresql84 on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120625)

2012-08-0100:00:00
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4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

0.012 Low

EPSS

Percentile

85.3%

PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system (DBMS).

A flaw was found in the way the crypt() password hashing function from the optional PostgreSQL pgcrypto contrib module performed password transformation when used with the DES algorithm. If the password string to be hashed contained the 0x80 byte value, the remainder of the string was ignored when calculating the hash, significantly reducing the password strength. This made brute-force guessing more efficient as the whole password was not required to gain access to protected resources. (CVE-2012-2143)

Note: With this update, the rest of the string is properly included in the DES hash; therefore, any previously stored password values that are affected by this issue will no longer match. In such cases, it will be necessary for those stored password hashes to be updated.

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the PostgreSQL server performed a user privileges check when applying SECURITY DEFINER or SET attributes to a procedural language’s (such as PL/Perl or PL/Python) call handler function. A non-superuser database owner could use this flaw to cause the PostgreSQL server to crash due to infinite recursion. (CVE-2012-2655)

These updated packages upgrade PostgreSQL to version 8.4.12, which fixes these issues as well as several non-security issues. Refer to the PostgreSQL Release Notes for a full list of changes :

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release.html

All PostgreSQL users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues. If the postgresql service is running, it will be automatically restarted after installing this update.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text is (C) Scientific Linux.
#

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(61353);
  script_version("1.8");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/14");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2012-2143", "CVE-2012-2655");

  script_name(english:"Scientific Linux Security Update : postgresql and postgresql84 on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20120625)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote Scientific Linux host is missing one or more security
updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
(DBMS).

A flaw was found in the way the crypt() password hashing function from
the optional PostgreSQL pgcrypto contrib module performed password
transformation when used with the DES algorithm. If the password
string to be hashed contained the 0x80 byte value, the remainder of
the string was ignored when calculating the hash, significantly
reducing the password strength. This made brute-force guessing more
efficient as the whole password was not required to gain access to
protected resources. (CVE-2012-2143)

Note: With this update, the rest of the string is properly included in
the DES hash; therefore, any previously stored password values that
are affected by this issue will no longer match. In such cases, it
will be necessary for those stored password hashes to be updated.

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the PostgreSQL server
performed a user privileges check when applying SECURITY DEFINER or
SET attributes to a procedural language's (such as PL/Perl or
PL/Python) call handler function. A non-superuser database owner could
use this flaw to cause the PostgreSQL server to crash due to infinite
recursion. (CVE-2012-2655)

These updated packages upgrade PostgreSQL to version 8.4.12, which
fixes these issues as well as several non-security issues. Refer to
the PostgreSQL Release Notes for a full list of changes :

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release.html

All PostgreSQL users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which correct these issues. If the postgresql service is running, it
will be automatically restarted after installing this update."
  );
  # http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/release.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/release.html"
  );
  # https://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1207&L=scientific-linux-errata&T=0&P=1512
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?f0c2d293"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:postgresql");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:postgresql-contrib");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:postgresql-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:postgresql-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:postgresql-docs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:postgresql-libs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:postgresql-plperl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:postgresql-plpython");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:postgresql-pltcl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:postgresql-server");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:postgresql-test");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2012/07/05");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2012/06/25");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2012/08/01");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2012-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"Scientific Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Scientific Linux " >!< release) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "running Scientific Linux");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Scientific Linux.*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Scientific Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^6([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Scientific Linux 6.x", "Scientific Linux " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if (cpu >!< "x86_64" && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Scientific Linux", cpu);


flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"postgresql-8.4.12-1.el6_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"postgresql-contrib-8.4.12-1.el6_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"postgresql-debuginfo-8.4.12-1.el6_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"postgresql-devel-8.4.12-1.el6_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"postgresql-docs-8.4.12-1.el6_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"postgresql-libs-8.4.12-1.el6_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"postgresql-plperl-8.4.12-1.el6_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"postgresql-plpython-8.4.12-1.el6_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"postgresql-pltcl-8.4.12-1.el6_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"postgresql-server-8.4.12-1.el6_2")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"SL6", reference:"postgresql-test-8.4.12-1.el6_2")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
    extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "postgresql / postgresql-contrib / postgresql-debuginfo / etc");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
fermilabscientific_linuxpostgresqlp-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:postgresql
fermilabscientific_linuxpostgresql-contribp-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:postgresql-contrib
fermilabscientific_linuxpostgresql-debuginfop-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:postgresql-debuginfo
fermilabscientific_linuxpostgresql-develp-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:postgresql-devel
fermilabscientific_linuxpostgresql-docsp-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:postgresql-docs
fermilabscientific_linuxpostgresql-libsp-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:postgresql-libs
fermilabscientific_linuxpostgresql-plperlp-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:postgresql-plperl
fermilabscientific_linuxpostgresql-plpythonp-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:postgresql-plpython
fermilabscientific_linuxpostgresql-pltclp-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:postgresql-pltcl
fermilabscientific_linuxpostgresql-serverp-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:postgresql-server
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4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

NONE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

0.012 Low

EPSS

Percentile

85.3%