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Fedora 20 : gnupg-1.4.17-1.fc20 (2014-7676)

low Nessus Plugin ID 76267

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

New upstream v1.4.17

 - Avoid DoS due to garbled compressed data packets.

 - Screen keyserver reponses to avoid import of unwanted keys by rogue servers.

 - Add hash algorithms to the 'sig' records of the colon output.

 - More specific reason codes for INV_RECP status.

 - Drop gpg.ru.1

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Solution

Update the affected gnupg package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?09da3020

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 76267

File Name: fedora_2014-7676.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/27/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.9

Temporal Score: 2.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnupg, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:20

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/24/2014

Reference Information

BID: 64424

FEDORA: 2014-7676