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Fedora Core 3 2005-124: postgresql

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Check for the version of the postgresql package

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is missing the patch for the advisory FEDORA-2005-124 (postgresql).

PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system
(DBMS) that supports almost all SQL constructs (including
transactions, subselects and user-defined types and functions).

* Mon Feb 07 2005 Tom Lane 7.4.7-1.FC3.2

- Put regression tests under /usr/lib64 on 64-bit archs, since .so
files
are not architecture-independent.

* Mon Feb 07 2005 Tom Lane 7.4.7-1.FC3.1

- Update to PostgreSQL 7.4.7 (fixes CVE-2005-0227 and other issues).
- Update to PyGreSQL 3.6.1.
- Add versionless symlinks to jar files (bz#145744)
- Add restorecon to postgresql.init in order to restore database to
correct
SELinux context.

Solution : http://www.fedoranews.org/blog/index.php?p=374
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2005 Tenable Network Security

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