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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : gnupg (MDVSA-2013:001-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 63374

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Synopsis

The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in gnupg :

Versions of GnuPG <= 1.4.12 are vulnerable to memory access violations and public keyring database corruption when importing public keys that have been manipulated. An OpenPGP key can be fuzzed in such a way that gpg segfaults (or has other memory access violations) when importing the key (CVE-2012-6085).

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected gnupg and / or gnupg2 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 63374

File Name: mandriva_MDVSA-2013-001.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Published: 1/3/2013

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:gnupg, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:gnupg2, cpe:/o:mandriva:business_server:1, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2011

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/2/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6085

BID: 57102

MDVSA: 2013:001, 2013:001-1