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SuSE 11.3 Security Update : GPG2 (SAT Patch Number 9433)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 76501

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Synopsis

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

Description

GPG2 has been updated to fix a possible denial of service.

This security issue has been fixed :

 - Denial of service through infinite loop with garbled compressed data packets (CVE-2014-4617)

Solution

Apply SAT patch number 9433.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884130

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-4617.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 76501

File Name: suse_11_gpg2-140626.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/15/2014

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

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

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: 6/26/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4617