Detections
Analytics

Fedora 27 : gnupg (2018-69780fc4d7)

high Nessus Plugin ID 110931

Language:

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

- New upstream v1.4.23 (#1589802,#1589620,#1589624)

 - Remove patches included in upstream release

 - Note that this includes the fix for [CVE-2018-12020]

----

 - doc Remove documentation for future option faked sys

 - build Don't use dev srandom on OpenBSD

 - Do not use C99 feature

 - g10 Fix regexp sanitization

 - g10 Push compress filter only if compressed

 - gpg Sanitize diagnostic with the original file name [CVE-2018-12020]

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

Solution

Update the affected gnupg package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-69780fc4d7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 110931

File Name: fedora_2018-69780fc4d7.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/6/2018

Updated: 9/6/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-12020

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:27, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnupg

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/5/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/8/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-12020