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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.702657
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2657-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'postgresql-8.4' package(s) announced via the DSA-2657-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'postgresql-8.4' package(s) announced via the DSA-2657-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
A vulnerability was discovered in PostgreSQL database server. Random numbers generated by contrib/pgcrypto functions may be easy for another database user to guess.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 8.4.17-0squeeze1.

For the testing (wheezy) and unstable distribution (sid), postgresql-8.4 packages have been removed, in those, this problem has been fixed in postgresql-9.1 9.1.9-0wheezy1 (wheezy), and 9.1.9-1 (sid) respectively.

Note: postgresql-8.4 in Squeeze is not affected by CVE-2013-1899 (database files corruption) and CVE-2013-1901 (unprivileged user can interfere with in-progress backups).

We recommend that you upgrade your postgresql-8.4 packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'postgresql-8.4' package(s) on Debian 6.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
8.5

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2013-1900
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00002.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2013/Sep/msg00004.html
Debian Security Information: DSA-2657 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2657
Debian Security Information: DSA-2658 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2658
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/101519.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-April/102806.html
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:142
RedHat Security Advisories: RHSA-2013:1475
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1475.html
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SU-2013:0633 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00011.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2013:0627 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00007.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2013:0628 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00008.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2013:0635 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-04/msg00012.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1789-1
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