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Oracle Linux 8 : postgresql:15 (ELSA-2023-7884)

2023-12-2100:00:00
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oracle linux 8
postgresql 15
multiple vulnerabilities
arbitrary code execution
memory disclosure
sql injection
elsa-2023-7884
remote user
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

9 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.015 Low

EPSS

Percentile

86.7%

The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2023-7884 advisory.

  • 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 vulnerability was found in PostgreSQL with the use of the MERGE command, which fails to test new rows against row security policies defined for UPDATE and SELECT. If UPDATE and SELECT policies forbid some rows that INSERT policies do not forbid, a user could store such rows. (CVE-2023-39418)

  • 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 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)

  • 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)

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 descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2023-7884.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(187183);
  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",
    "CVE-2023-39418"
  );
  script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2023-B-0060-S");
  script_xref(name:"IAVB", value:"2023-B-0088-S");

  script_name(english:"Oracle Linux 8 : postgresql:15 (ELSA-2023-7884)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Oracle Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the
ELSA-2023-7884 advisory.

  - 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 vulnerability was found in PostgreSQL with the use of the MERGE command, which fails to test new rows
    against row security policies defined for UPDATE and SELECT. If UPDATE and SELECT policies forbid some
    rows that INSERT policies do not forbid, a user could store such rows. (CVE-2023-39418)

  - 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 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)

  - 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)

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://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2023-7884.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_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2023/08/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/12/20");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/12/21");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::appstream");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:pg_repack");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:pgaudit");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgres-decoderbufs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgresql");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgresql-contrib");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgresql-docs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgresql-plperl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgresql-plpython3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgresql-pltcl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgresql-private-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgresql-private-libs");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgresql-server");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgresql-server-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgresql-static");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgresql-test");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgresql-test-rpm-macros");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgresql-upgrade");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgresql-upgrade-devel");
  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:"Oracle 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/OracleLinux", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list", "Host/local_checks_enabled");

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/OracleLinux')) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
var os_release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(os_release) || !pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux)", string:os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Oracle (?:Linux Server|Enterprise Linux) .*release ([0-9]+(\.[0-9]+)?)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Oracle Linux');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^8([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Oracle Linux 8', 'Oracle Linux ' + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/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$" && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Oracle Linux', cpu);

var module_ver = get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/appstream/postgresql');
if (isnull(module_ver)) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'Module postgresql:15');
if ('15' >!< module_ver) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, 'Module postgresql:' + module_ver);

var appstreams = {
    'postgresql:15': [
      {'reference':'pg_repack-1.4.8-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'pgaudit-1.7.0-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgres-decoderbufs-1.9.7-1.Final.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-contrib-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-docs-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-plperl-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-plpython3-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-pltcl-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-private-devel-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-private-libs-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-server-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-server-devel-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-static-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-test-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-test-rpm-macros-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-upgrade-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-upgrade-devel-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'aarch64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'pg_repack-1.4.8-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'pgaudit-1.7.0-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgres-decoderbufs-1.9.7-1.Final.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-contrib-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-docs-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-plperl-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-plpython3-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-pltcl-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-private-devel-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-private-libs-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-server-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-server-devel-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-static-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-test-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-test-rpm-macros-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-upgrade-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
      {'reference':'postgresql-upgrade-devel-15.5-1.module+el8.9.0+90110+d8a562d5', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'8', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
    ]
};

var flag = 0;
var appstreams_found = 0;
foreach var module (keys(appstreams)) {
  var appstream = NULL;
  var appstream_name = NULL;
  var appstream_version = NULL;
  var appstream_split = split(module, sep:':', keep:FALSE);
  if (!empty_or_null(appstream_split)) {
    appstream_name = appstream_split[0];
    appstream_version = appstream_split[1];
    if (!empty_or_null(appstream_name)) appstream = get_one_kb_item('Host/RedHat/appstream/' + appstream_name);
  }
  if (!empty_or_null(appstream) && appstream_version == appstream || appstream_name == 'all') {
    appstreams_found++;
    foreach var package_array ( appstreams[module] ) {
      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;
      if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
      if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = 'EL' + 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 (reference && _release) {
        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 (!appstreams_found) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'Module postgresql:15');

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, 'pg_repack / pgaudit / postgres-decoderbufs / etc');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
oraclelinux8cpe:/a:oracle:linux:8::appstream
oraclelinux8cpe:/o:oracle:linux:8
oraclelinuxpg_repackp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:pg_repack
oraclelinuxpgauditp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:pgaudit
oraclelinuxpostgres-decoderbufsp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgres-decoderbufs
oraclelinuxpostgresqlp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgresql
oraclelinuxpostgresql-contribp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgresql-contrib
oraclelinuxpostgresql-docsp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgresql-docs
oraclelinuxpostgresql-plperlp-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgresql-plperl
oraclelinuxpostgresql-plpython3p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:postgresql-plpython3
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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

9 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.015 Low

EPSS

Percentile

86.7%