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Debian DSA-2967-1 : gnupg - security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 76219

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Synopsis

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

Description

Jean-Rene Reinhard, Olivier Levillain and Florian Maury reported that GnuPG, the GNU Privacy Guard, did not properly parse certain garbled compressed data packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to mount a denial of service against GnuPG by triggering an infinite loop.

Solution

Upgrade the gnupg packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.12-7+deb7u4.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=752497

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/gnupg

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2967

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 76219

File Name: debian_DSA-2967.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/26/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnupg, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/25/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4617

BID: 68156

DSA: 2967