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Amazon Linux AMI : gnupg2 (ALAS-2015-574)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 85045

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

It was reported that gnupg2 keyring DB code did not reject packets which don't belong into a keyring, which may lead to invalid read of sizeof (int).

Solution

Run 'yum update gnupg2' to update your system.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f139eeaf

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2015-574.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 85045

File Name: ala_ALAS-2015-574.nasl

Version: 2.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/29/2015

Updated: 11/25/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:gnupg2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:gnupg2, cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:gnupg2-smime

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 7/28/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/20/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1606

ALAS: 2015-574