Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 / 13.04 : gnupg, gnupg2 vulnerabilities (USN-1987-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70366

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Synopsis

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

Description

Daniel Kahn Gillmor discovered that GnuPG treated keys with empty usage flags as being valid for all usages. (CVE-2013-4351)

Taylor R Campbell discovered that GnuPG incorrectly handled certain OpenPGP messages. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted message, GnuPG could consume resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2013-4402).

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Solution

Update the affected gnupg and / or gnupg2 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70366

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1987-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 10/10/2013

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: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnupg2, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:13.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnupg

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/9/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/9/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4351, CVE-2013-4402

BID: 62857

USN: 1987-1

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