Debian DSA-1141-1 : gnupg2 - integer overflow

medium Nessus Plugin ID 22683

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Evgeny Legerov discovered that overly large comments can crash gnupg, the GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement, which is also present in the development branch.

Solution

Upgrade the gnupg2 package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.15-6sarge2.

See Also

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381204

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1141

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 22683

File Name: debian_DSA-1141.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnupg2, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/4/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/21/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-3746

BID: 19110

DSA: 1141