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Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : gnupg vulnerability (USN-264-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 21182

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Tavis Ormandy discovered a flaw in gnupg's signature verification. In some cases, certain invalid signature formats could cause gpg to report a 'good signature' result for auxiliary unsigned data which was prepended or appended to the checked message part.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected gnupg package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 21182

File Name: ubuntu_USN-264-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/4/2006

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:4.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnupg

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/4/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/9/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0049

USN: 264-1