Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-5870

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"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be
patched.");
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"The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied
patch available.

  - 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)

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if (!get_kb_item("global_settings/vendor_unpatched")) exit(0, "Unpatched Vulnerabilities Detection not active.");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) && empty_or_null(get_one_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list"))) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

include('linux_unpatched.inc');

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  "Ubuntu Linux-14.04": {
    "package_manager": "dpkg-l",
    "constraints": [
      {
        "release": "14.04",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "libecpg-compat3"},
          {"reference": "libecpg-dev"},
          {"reference": "libecpg6"},
          {"reference": "libpgtypes3"},
          {"reference": "libpq-dev"},
          {"reference": "libpq5"},
          {"reference": "postgresql-9.3"},
          {"reference": "postgresql-9.3-dbg"},
          {"reference": "postgresql-client-9.3"},
          {"reference": "postgresql-contrib-9.3"},
          {"reference": "postgresql-doc-9.3"},
          {"reference": "postgresql-plperl-9.3"},
          {"reference": "postgresql-plpython-9.3"},
          {"reference": "postgresql-plpython3-9.3"},
          {"reference": "postgresql-pltcl-9.3"},
          {"reference": "postgresql-server-dev-9.3"}
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      }
    ]
  },
  "CentOS Linux-7": {
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        "release": "7",
        "pkgs": [
          {"reference": "postgresql"},
          {"reference": "postgresql-contrib"},
          {"reference": "postgresql-devel"},
          {"reference": "postgresql-docs"},
          {"reference": "postgresql-libs"},
          {"reference": "postgresql-plperl"},
          {"reference": "postgresql-plpython"},
          {"reference": "postgresql-pltcl"},
          {"reference": "postgresql-server"},
          {"reference": "postgresql-static"},
          {"reference": "postgresql-test"},
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          {"reference": "pgaudit"},
          {"reference": "postgres-decoderbufs"},
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var distro_constraints_values = linux_unpatched::get_distro_constraints(distro_constraints_arr:distro_constraints_array);
if (empty_or_null(distro_constraints_values)) audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
var report = linux_unpatched::check_unpatched_constraints(distro_constraints_values:distro_constraints_values);

if (!empty_or_null(report))
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : report
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, 'affected');
}