FreeBSD : GnuPG and Libgcrypt -- side-channel attack vulnerability (689c2bf7-0701-11e3-9a25-002590860428)

low Nessus Plugin ID 69396

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Werner Koch of the GNU project reports :

Noteworthy changes in version 1.5.3 :

Mitigate the Yarom/Falkner flush+reload side-channel attack on RSA secret keys...

Note that Libgcrypt is used by GnuPG 2.x and thus this release fixes the above problem. The fix for GnuPG less than 2.0 can be found in the just released GnuPG 1.4.14.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 69396

File Name: freebsd_pkg_689c2bf7070111e39a25002590860428.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 8/20/2013

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:libgcrypt, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:linux-f10-libgcrypt, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 8/17/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/18/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4242

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