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GLSA-201407-04 : GnuPG: Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 76545

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Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201407-04 (GnuPG: Denial of Service)

 GnuPG does not properly handle a specially crated compressed packet resulting in an infinite loop.
 Impact :

 A context-dependent attacker can cause a Denial of Service.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All GnuPG 2.0 users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.24' All GnuPG 1.4 users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.17'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201407-04

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 76545

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-201407-04.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 7/17/2014

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: 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:gentoo:linux:gnupg, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/16/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4617

BID: 68156

GLSA: 201407-04