Debian DSA-2968-1 : gnupg2 - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 76285

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Jean-Rene Reinhard, Olivier Levillain and Florian Maury reported that GnuPG, the GNU Privacy Guard, did not properly parse certain garbled compressed data packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to mount a denial of service against GnuPG by triggering an infinite loop.

Solution

Upgrade the gnupg2 packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.19-2+deb7u2.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 76285

File Name: debian_DSA-2968.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 6/28/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, 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:debian:debian_linux:gnupg2, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/27/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4617

BID: 68156

DSA: 2968

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