Debian DSA-2601-1 : gnupg, gnupg2 - missing input sanitation

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63386

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

KB Sriram discovered that GnuPG, the GNU Privacy Guard did not sufficiently sanitise public keys on import, which could lead to memory and keyring corruption.

The problem affects both version 1, in the 'gnupg' package, and version two, in the 'gnupg2' package.

Solution

Upgrade the gnupg and/or gnupg2 packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.10-4+squeeze1 of gnupg and version 2.0.14-2+squeeze1 of gnupg2.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63386

File Name: debian_DSA-2601.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 1/7/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnupg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnupg2, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/6/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6085

BID: 57102

DSA: 2601

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