SuSE 11.2 / 11.3 Security Update : gpg2 (SAT Patch Numbers 8426 / 8427)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70631

Synopsis

The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This GnuPG update fixes two security issues :

- GnuPG treated no-usage-permitted keys as all-usages-permitted. (CVE-2013-4351)

- An infinite recursion in the compressed packet parser was fixed. (CVE-2013-4402)

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 8426 / 8427 as appropriate.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=840510

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844175

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4351.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-4402.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70631

File Name: suse_11_gpg2-131008.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/25/2013

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:gpg2-lang, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:gpg2, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2013

Reference Information

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