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RHEL 8 : gnupg2 (RHSA-2022:6463)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 164971

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for gnupg2.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6463 advisory.

 The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is a tool for encrypting data and creating digital signatures, compliant with OpenPGP and S/MIME standards.

 Security Fix(es):

 * gpg: Signature spoofing via status line injection (CVE-2022-34903)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL gnupg2 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:6463.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?e91e9d61

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6463

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2102868

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 164971

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-6463.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/13/2022

Updated: 11/7/2024

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: 5.0

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnupg2, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnupg2-smime

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-34903

CWE: 347

RHSA: 2022:6463