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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : GnuPG vulnerabilities (USN-2554-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 82526

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-2554-1 advisory.

 Daniel Genkin, Lev Pachmanov, Itamar Pipman, and Eran Tromer discovered that GnuPG was susceptible to an attack via physical side channels. A local attacker could use this attack to possibly recover private keys. (CVE-2014-3591)

 Daniel Genkin, Adi Shamir, and Eran Tromer discovered that GnuPG was susceptible to an attack via physical side channels. A local attacker could use this attack to possibly recover private keys. (CVE-2015-0837)

 Hanno Bck discovered that GnuPG incorrectly handled certain malformed keyrings. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a malformed keyring, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause GnuPG to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-1606, CVE-2015-1607)

 In addition, this update improves GnuPG security by validating that the keys returned by keyservers match those requested.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2554-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 82526

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2554-1.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/2/2015

Updated: 8/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-0837

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gpgsm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnupg-curl, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gpgv, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:scdaemon, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnupg-agent, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gpgv2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gpgv-udeb, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnupg2, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnupg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:gnupg-udeb

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/1/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3591, CVE-2014-5270, CVE-2015-0837, CVE-2015-1606, CVE-2015-1607

BID: 69164, 72609, 72610, 73064, 73066

USN: 2554-1