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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS : gnupg2 vulnerability (USN-970-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 48315

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

It was discovered that GPGSM in GnuPG2 did not correctly handle certificates with a large number of Subject Alternate Names. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted certificate, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program.

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Solution

Update the affected gnupg-agent, gnupg2 and / or gpgsm packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/970-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 48315

File Name: ubuntu_USN-970-1.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/12/2010

Updated: 9/19/2019

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: 5.1

Temporal Score: 3.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gpgsm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnupg-agent, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnupg2, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/11/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/5/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2547

BID: 41945

USN: 970-1