Summary
The remote host is missing an update to libdbd-pg-perl announced via advisory DSA 1780-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201780-1
Insight
Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in libdbd-pg-perl, the DBI driver module for PostgreSQL database access (DBD::Pg).
CVE-2009-0663
A heap-based buffer overflow may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code through applications which read rows from the database using the pg_getline and getline functions. (More common retrieval methods, such as selectall_arrayref and fetchrow_array, are not affected.)
CVE-2009-1341
A memory leak in the routine which unquotes BYTEA values returned from the database allows attackers to cause a denial of service.
For the old stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 1.49-2+etch1.
For the stable distribution (lenny) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.3-1 before the release of lenny.
We recommend that you upgrade your libdbd-pg-perl package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-0663, CVE-2009-1341 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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