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Amazon Linux 2 : gnupg2 (ALAS-2022-1834)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 164295

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of gnupg2 installed on the remote host is prior to 2.0.22-5. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1834 advisory.

 - GnuPG through 2.3.6, in unusual situations where an attacker possesses any secret-key information from a victim's keyring and other constraints (e.g., use of GPGME) are met, allows signature forgery via injection into the status line. (CVE-2022-34903)

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

Solution

Run 'yum update gnupg2' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2022-1834.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-34903.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 164295

File Name: al2_ALAS-2022-1834.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/19/2022

Updated: 10/13/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-34903

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:gnupg2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:gnupg2, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:gnupg2-smime

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-34903