Debian DLA-39-1 : gpgme1.0 security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 82186

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Tomas Trnka discovered a heap-based buffer overflow within the gpgsm status handler of GPGME, a library designed to make access to GnuPG easier for applications. An attacker could use this issue to cause an application using GPGME to crash (denial of service) or possibly to execute arbitrary code.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected libgpgme11, and libgpgme11-dev packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2014/08/msg00013.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/gpgme1.0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 82186

File Name: debian_DLA-39.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgpgme11, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgpgme11-dev

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/20/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3564

BID: 68990