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CentOS 9 : gnupg2-2.3.3-2.el9

medium Nessus Plugin ID 191406

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update for gnupg2.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the gnupg2-2.3.3-2.el9 build changelog.

 - 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

Update the CentOS 9 Stream gnupg2 package.

See Also

https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=24191

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 191406

File Name: centos9_gnupg2-2_3_3-2.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/29/2024

Updated: 4/26/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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:centos:centos:gnupg2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gnupg2-smime, cpe:/a:centos:centos:9

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-34903