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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : GnuPG vulnerability (USN-4516-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 140650

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4516-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that GnuPG signatures could be forged when the SHA-1 algorithm is being used. This update removes validating signatures based on SHA-1 that were generated after 2019-01-19. In environments where this is still required, a new option --allow-weak-key-signatures can be used to revert this behaviour.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4516-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 140650

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4516-1.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/17/2020

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14855

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:H/I:N/A:N

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gpgsm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gpgv-static, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gpgv-win32, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gpg-agent, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnupg-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gpg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gpgv, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnupg-agent, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gpg-wks-client, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:scdaemon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gpgv-udeb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnupg2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gpg-wks-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:dirmngr, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gpgv2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnupg-l10n, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gpgconf, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnupg

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/20/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14855

USN: 4516-1