openSUSE Security Update : gpg2 (openSUSE-SU-2013:1546-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 75166

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

gpg2 was updated to fix a denial of service attack through infinite recursion in the compressed packet parser [bnc#844175] [CVE-2013-4402].

Solution

Update the affected gpg2 packages.

See Also

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

https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00020.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 75166

File Name: openSUSE-2013-758.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2014

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: 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

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gpg2-debugsource, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.3, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gpg2-lang, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:12.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gpg2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gpg2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/6/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4402

BID: 62857