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HistoryAug 19, 2016 - 12:00 a.m.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : PostgreSQL vulnerabilities (USN-3066-1)

2016-08-1900:00:00
Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2016-2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2016-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
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9

6.5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

8.3 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H

0.01 Low

EPSS

Percentile

84.0%

Heikki Linnakangas discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled certain nested CASE/WHEN expressions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PostgreSQL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2016-5423)

Nathan Bossart discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled special characters in database and role names. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. (CVE-2016-5424).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3066-1. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Canonical, Inc. See 
# <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/>. Ubuntu(R) is a registered 
# trademark of Canonical, Inc.
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(93047);
  script_version("2.12");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/10/20");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2016-5423", "CVE-2016-5424");
  script_xref(name:"USN", value:"3066-1");

  script_name(english:"Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : PostgreSQL vulnerabilities (USN-3066-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Heikki Linnakangas discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled
certain nested CASE/WHEN expressions. A remote attacker could possibly
use this issue to cause PostgreSQL to crash, resulting in a denial of
service. (CVE-2016-5423)

Nathan Bossart discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled special
characters in database and role names. A remote attacker could
possibly use this issue to escalate privileges. (CVE-2016-5424).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3066-1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  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:L/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-2016-5423");

  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:"2016/12/09");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/08/18");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/08/19");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-9.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-9.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-client-9.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-client-9.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-contrib-9.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-contrib-9.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plperl-9.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plperl-9.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plpython-9.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plpython-9.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plpython3-9.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plpython3-9.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-pltcl-9.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-pltcl-9.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-server-dev-9.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-server-dev-9.5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libecpg-compat3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libecpg-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libecpg6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpgtypes3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpq-dev");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libpq5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

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

  script_copyright(english:"Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2016-2023 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2016-2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/cpu", "Host/Ubuntu", "Host/Ubuntu/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}

include('debian_package.inc');

if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled') ) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/Ubuntu/release');
if ( isnull(os_release) ) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu');
os_release = chomp(os_release);
if (! ('14.04' >< os_release || '16.04' >< os_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Ubuntu 14.04 / 16.04', 'Ubuntu ' + os_release);
if ( ! get_kb_item('Host/Debian/dpkg-l') ) 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, 'Ubuntu', cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libecpg-compat3', 'pkgver': '9.3.14-0ubuntu0.14.04'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libecpg-dev', 'pkgver': '9.3.14-0ubuntu0.14.04'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libecpg6', 'pkgver': '9.3.14-0ubuntu0.14.04'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libpgtypes3', 'pkgver': '9.3.14-0ubuntu0.14.04'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libpq-dev', 'pkgver': '9.3.14-0ubuntu0.14.04'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'libpq5', 'pkgver': '9.3.14-0ubuntu0.14.04'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'postgresql-9.3', 'pkgver': '9.3.14-0ubuntu0.14.04'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'postgresql-client-9.3', 'pkgver': '9.3.14-0ubuntu0.14.04'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'postgresql-contrib-9.3', 'pkgver': '9.3.14-0ubuntu0.14.04'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'postgresql-plperl-9.3', 'pkgver': '9.3.14-0ubuntu0.14.04'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'postgresql-plpython-9.3', 'pkgver': '9.3.14-0ubuntu0.14.04'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'postgresql-plpython3-9.3', 'pkgver': '9.3.14-0ubuntu0.14.04'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'postgresql-pltcl-9.3', 'pkgver': '9.3.14-0ubuntu0.14.04'},
    {'osver': '14.04', 'pkgname': 'postgresql-server-dev-9.3', 'pkgver': '9.3.14-0ubuntu0.14.04'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libecpg-compat3', 'pkgver': '9.5.4-0ubuntu0.16.04'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libecpg-dev', 'pkgver': '9.5.4-0ubuntu0.16.04'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libecpg6', 'pkgver': '9.5.4-0ubuntu0.16.04'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libpgtypes3', 'pkgver': '9.5.4-0ubuntu0.16.04'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libpq-dev', 'pkgver': '9.5.4-0ubuntu0.16.04'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'libpq5', 'pkgver': '9.5.4-0ubuntu0.16.04'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'postgresql-9.5', 'pkgver': '9.5.4-0ubuntu0.16.04'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'postgresql-client-9.5', 'pkgver': '9.5.4-0ubuntu0.16.04'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'postgresql-contrib-9.5', 'pkgver': '9.5.4-0ubuntu0.16.04'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'postgresql-plperl-9.5', 'pkgver': '9.5.4-0ubuntu0.16.04'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'postgresql-plpython-9.5', 'pkgver': '9.5.4-0ubuntu0.16.04'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'postgresql-plpython3-9.5', 'pkgver': '9.5.4-0ubuntu0.16.04'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'postgresql-pltcl-9.5', 'pkgver': '9.5.4-0ubuntu0.16.04'},
    {'osver': '16.04', 'pkgname': 'postgresql-server-dev-9.5', 'pkgver': '9.5.4-0ubuntu0.16.04'}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var osver = NULL;
  var pkgname = NULL;
  var pkgver = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['osver'])) osver = package_array['osver'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgname'])) pkgname = package_array['pkgname'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['pkgver'])) pkgver = package_array['pkgver'];
  if (osver && pkgname && pkgver) {
    if (ubuntu_check(osver:osver, pkgname:pkgname, pkgver:pkgver)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
    port       : 0,
    severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
    extra      : ubuntu_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = ubuntu_pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'libecpg-compat3 / libecpg-dev / libecpg6 / libpgtypes3 / libpq-dev / etc');
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
canonicalubuntu_linuxpostgresql-9.3p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-9.3
canonicalubuntu_linuxpostgresql-9.5p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-9.5
canonicalubuntu_linuxpostgresql-client-9.3p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-client-9.3
canonicalubuntu_linuxpostgresql-client-9.5p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-client-9.5
canonicalubuntu_linuxpostgresql-contrib-9.3p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-contrib-9.3
canonicalubuntu_linuxpostgresql-contrib-9.5p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-contrib-9.5
canonicalubuntu_linuxpostgresql-plperl-9.3p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plperl-9.3
canonicalubuntu_linuxpostgresql-plperl-9.5p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plperl-9.5
canonicalubuntu_linuxpostgresql-plpython-9.3p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plpython-9.3
canonicalubuntu_linuxpostgresql-plpython-9.5p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:postgresql-plpython-9.5
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6.5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

8.3 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H

0.01 Low

EPSS

Percentile

84.0%