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Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : gnupg vulnerability (USN-304-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27879

Synopsis

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

Description

Evgeny Legerov discovered that GnuPG did not sufficiently check overly large user ID packets. Specially crafted user IDs caused a buffer overflow. By tricking an user or remote automated system into processing a malicous GnuPG message, an attacker could exploit this to crash GnuPG or possibly even execute arbitrary code.

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Solution

Update the affected gnupg package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/304-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27879

File Name: ubuntu_USN-304-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2007

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: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, 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: 6/26/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-3082

USN: 304-1