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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : Libgcrypt vulnerability (USN-2896-1)

low Nessus Plugin ID 88747

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-2896-1 advisory.

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

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

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

Solution

Update the affected libgcrypt11, libgcrypt11-dev and / or libgcrypt11-udeb packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2896-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 88747

File Name: ubuntu_USN-2896-1.nasl

Version: 2.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/16/2016

Updated: 8/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-7511

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2

Temporal Score: 1.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgcrypt11, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgcrypt11-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgcrypt11-udeb, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/15/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/19/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-7511

USN: 2896-1