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Fedora 30 : gnupg2 (2019-2f259a6c0a)

high Nessus Plugin ID 126797

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Minor update to version 2.2.17 from upstream with a security issue (Certificate Spamming Attack) mitigation.

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 gnupg2 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-2f259a6c0a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 126797

File Name: fedora_2019-2f259a6c0a.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/19/2019

Updated: 5/9/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, 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:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-13050

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:N/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:30, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnupg2

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: 7/18/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/29/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-13050