Debian DLA-51-1 : gnupg2 security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 82198

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security 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.

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 gnupg-agent, gnupg2, and gpgsm packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 82198

File Name: debian_DLA-51.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/26/2015

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, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnupg-agent, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gpgsm

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/10/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4617

BID: 68156

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