Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : gnupg vulnerability (USN-393-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 27978

Synopsis

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

Description

Tavis Ormandy discovered that gnupg was incorrectly using the stack.
If a user were tricked into processing a specially crafted message, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges.

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: Critical

ID: 27978

File Name: ubuntu_USN-393-1.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 11/10/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnupg, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/6/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-6235

BID: 21462

USN: 393-1

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