Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : gnupg vulnerability (USN-332-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27911

Synopsis

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

Description

Evgeny Legerov discovered that gnupg did not sufficiently check the validity of the comment and a control field. Specially crafted GPG data could cause a buffer overflow. This could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges if an attacker can trick an user into processing a malicious encrypted/signed document with gnupg.

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Solution

Update the affected gnupg package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27911

File Name: ubuntu_USN-332-1.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

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: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/3/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-3746

BID: 19110

USN: 332-1

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