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CentOS 5 : gnupg (CESA-2014:0016)

low Nessus Plugin ID 71866

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.

Description

An updated gnupg package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is a tool for encrypting data and creating digital signatures, compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard and the S/MIME standard.

It was found that GnuPG was vulnerable to side-channel attacks via acoustic cryptanalysis. An attacker in close range to a target system that is decrypting ciphertexts could possibly use this flaw to recover the RSA secret key from that system. (CVE-2013-4576)

Red Hat would like to thank Werner Koch of GnuPG upstream for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Genkin, Shamir, and Tromer as the original reporters.

All gnupg users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected gnupg package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2446baff

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 71866

File Name: centos_RHSA-2014-0016.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/9/2014

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-4576

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:gnupg

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/8/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/20/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4576

RHSA: 2014:0016