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GLSA-202409-01 : Portage: Unverified PGP Signatures

critical Nessus Plugin ID 207567

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Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202409-01 (Portage: Unverified PGP Signatures)

 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Portage. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo 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

All Portage users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=sys-apps/portage-3.0.47

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202409-01

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=905356

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 207567

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202409-01.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 9/22/2024

Updated: 9/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-20021

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:portage

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/22/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/12/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-20021