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AlmaLinux 9 : postgresql (ALSA-2023:7784)

2023-12-1400:00:00
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almalinux 9
postgresql
vulnerabilities
sql injection
memory disclosure
flaw
cve-2023-39417
cve-2023-5868
cve-2023-5869
cve-2023-5870
denial of service

8.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

8.9 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.015 Low

EPSS

Percentile

86.8%

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2023:7784 advisory.

  • IN THE EXTENSION SCRIPT, a SQL Injection vulnerability was found in PostgreSQL if it uses @extowner@, @extschema@, or @extschema:…@ inside a quoting construct (dollar quoting, ‘’, or ). If an administrator has installed files of a vulnerable, trusted, non-bundled extension, an attacker with database-level CREATE privilege can execute arbitrary code as the bootstrap superuser. (CVE-2023-39417)

  • A memory disclosure vulnerability was found in PostgreSQL that allows remote users to access sensitive information by exploiting certain aggregate function calls with ‘unknown’-type arguments. Handling ‘unknown’-type values from string literals without type designation can disclose bytes, potentially revealing notable and confidential information. This issue exists due to excessive data output in aggregate function calls, enabling remote users to read some portion of system memory. (CVE-2023-5868)

  • A flaw was found in PostgreSQL that allows authenticated database users to execute arbitrary code through missing overflow checks during SQL array value modification. This issue exists due to an integer overflow during array modification where a remote user can trigger the overflow by providing specially crafted data. This enables the execution of arbitrary code on the target system, allowing users to write arbitrary bytes to memory and extensively read the server’s memory. (CVE-2023-5869)

  • A flaw was found in PostgreSQL involving the pg_cancel_backend role that signals background workers, including the logical replication launcher, autovacuum workers, and the autovacuum launcher. Successful exploitation requires a non-core extension with a less-resilient background worker and would affect that specific background worker only. This issue may allow a remote high privileged user to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack. (CVE-2023-5870)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# AlmaLinux Security Advisory ALSA-2023:7784.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(186921);
  script_version("1.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/02/16");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2023-5868",
    "CVE-2023-5869",
    "CVE-2023-5870",
    "CVE-2023-39417"
  );
  script_xref(name:"ALSA", value:"2023:7784");
  script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2023-B-0060-S");
  script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2023-B-0088-S");

  script_name(english:"AlmaLinux 9 : postgresql (ALSA-2023:7784)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote AlmaLinux host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the
ALSA-2023:7784 advisory.

  - IN THE EXTENSION SCRIPT, a SQL Injection vulnerability was found in PostgreSQL if it uses @extowner@,
    @extschema@, or @extschema:...@ inside a quoting construct (dollar quoting, '', or ). If an
    administrator has installed files of a vulnerable, trusted, non-bundled extension, an attacker with
    database-level CREATE privilege can execute arbitrary code as the bootstrap superuser. (CVE-2023-39417)

  - A memory disclosure vulnerability was found in PostgreSQL that allows remote users to access sensitive
    information by exploiting certain aggregate function calls with 'unknown'-type arguments. Handling
    'unknown'-type values from string literals without type designation can disclose bytes, potentially
    revealing notable and confidential information. This issue exists due to excessive data output in
    aggregate function calls, enabling remote users to read some portion of system memory. (CVE-2023-5868)

  - A flaw was found in PostgreSQL that allows authenticated database users to execute arbitrary code through
    missing overflow checks during SQL array value modification. This issue exists due to an integer overflow
    during array modification where a remote user can trigger the overflow by providing specially crafted
    data. This enables the execution of arbitrary code on the target system, allowing users to write arbitrary
    bytes to memory and extensively read the server's memory. (CVE-2023-5869)

  - A flaw was found in PostgreSQL involving the pg_cancel_backend role that signals background workers,
    including the logical replication launcher, autovacuum workers, and the autovacuum launcher. Successful
    exploitation requires a non-core extension with a less-resilient background worker and would affect that
    specific background worker only. This issue may allow a remote high privileged user to launch a denial of
    service (DoS) attack. (CVE-2023-5870)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-7784.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2023-5869");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
  script_cwe_id(89);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2023/08/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/12/13");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/12/14");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-contrib");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-docs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-plperl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-plpython3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-pltcl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-private-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-private-libs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-server");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-server-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-static");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-test");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-upgrade");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-upgrade-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::appstream");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::baseos");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::crb");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::highavailability");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::nfv");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::realtime");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::resilientstorage");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::sap_hana");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:alma:linux:9::supplementary");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Alma Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

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

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/AlmaLinux/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'AlmaLinux' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'AlmaLinux');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "AlmaLinux release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'AlmaLinux');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^9([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'AlmaLinux 9.x', 'AlmaLinux ' + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/AlmaLinux/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'AlmaLinux', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'postgresql-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-contrib-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-contrib-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-docs-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-docs-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-plperl-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-plperl-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-plpython3-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-plpython3-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-pltcl-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-pltcl-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-private-devel-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-private-devel-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-private-libs-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-private-libs-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-server-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-server-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-server-devel-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-server-devel-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-static-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-static-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-test-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-test-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-upgrade-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-upgrade-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-upgrade-devel-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'postgresql-upgrade-devel-13.13-1.el9_3', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'9', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var _release = NULL;
  var sp = NULL;
  var _cpu = NULL;
  var el_string = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  var epoch = NULL;
  var allowmaj = NULL;
  var exists_check = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = 'Alma-' + package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
  if (reference && _release && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check))) {
    if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'postgresql / postgresql-contrib / postgresql-docs / etc');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
almalinuxpostgresqlp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql
almalinuxpostgresql-contribp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-contrib
almalinuxpostgresql-docsp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-docs
almalinuxpostgresql-plperlp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-plperl
almalinuxpostgresql-plpython3p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-plpython3
almalinuxpostgresql-pltclp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-pltcl
almalinuxpostgresql-private-develp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-private-devel
almalinuxpostgresql-private-libsp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-private-libs
almalinuxpostgresql-serverp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-server
almalinuxpostgresql-server-develp-cpe:/a:alma:linux:postgresql-server-devel
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8.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

8.9 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.015 Low

EPSS

Percentile

86.8%