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HistoryJul 13, 2005 - 12:00 a.m.

FreeBSD : postgresql -- privilege escalation vulnerability (5d425189-7a03-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82)

2005-07-1300:00:00
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John Heasman and others disovered that non-privileged users could use the LOAD extension to load arbitrary libraries into the postgres server process space. This could be used by non-privileged local users to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the postgresql server.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
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include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(18949);
  script_version("1.21");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/06");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2005-0227");
  script_bugtraq_id(12411);

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : postgresql -- privilege escalation vulnerability (5d425189-7a03-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated packages in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:
"The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related
updates."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"John Heasman and others disovered that non-privileged users could use
the LOAD extension to load arbitrary libraries into the postgres
server process space. This could be used by non-privileged local users
to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the postgresql
server."
  );
  # http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2005-02/msg00000.php
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?416d0c25"
  );
  # http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2005-01/msg00269.php
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?b4709320"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/5d425189-7a03-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?59a12f54"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No exploit is required");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_cwe_id(94);

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ja-postgresql");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:postgresql");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:postgresql-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:postgresql-server");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2005/01/21");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2005/02/08");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2005/07/13");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"postgresql<7.3.9")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"postgresql>7.4.*<7.4.7")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"postgresql>8.*<8.0.1")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"postgresql-server<7.3.9")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"postgresql-server>7.4.*<7.4.7")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"postgresql-server>8.*<8.0.1")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"ja-postgresql<7.3.9")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"ja-postgresql>7.4.*<7.4.7")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"ja-postgresql>8.*<8.0.1")) flag++;
if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"postgresql-devel<=8.0.1,1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
freebsdfreebsdja-postgresqlp-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ja-postgresql
freebsdfreebsdpostgresqlp-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:postgresql
freebsdfreebsdpostgresql-develp-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:postgresql-devel
freebsdfreebsdpostgresql-serverp-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:postgresql-server
freebsdfreebsdcpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd
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