openSUSE Security Update : GnuPG (openSUSE-2015-840)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 87117

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

GnuPG was updated to fix two memory handling issues with potential security impact :

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

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

Solution

Update the affected GnuPG packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=918089

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=918090

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 87117

File Name: openSUSE-2015-840.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/1/2015

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, 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:novell:opensuse:gpg2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gpg2-lang, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gpg2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:gpg2-debuginfo

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/30/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/20/2019

Reference Information

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