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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : gpg2 (SUSE-SU-2015:2171-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87197

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Synopsis

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

Description

The gpg2 package was updated to fix the following security and non security issues :

 - CVE-2015-1606: Fixed invalid memory read using a garbled keyring (bsc#918089).

 - CVE-2015-1607: Fixed memcpy with overlapping ranges (bsc#918090).

 - bsc#955753: Fixed a regression of 'gpg --recv' due to keyserver import filter (also boo#952347).

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

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-922=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-2015-922=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918089

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918090

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952347

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=955753

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1606/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-1607/

http://www.nessus.org/u?ca971964

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87197

File Name: suse_SU-2015-2171-1.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/4/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gpg2, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gpg2-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:gpg2-debugsource

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/2/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/20/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-1606, CVE-2015-1607

BID: 72609, 72610