Debian DLA-175-1 : gnupg security update

medium Nessus Plugin ID 82160

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in GnuPG, the GNU Privacy Guard :

CVE-2014-3591

The Elgamal decryption routine was susceptible to a side-channel attack discovered by researchers of Tel Aviv University. Ciphertext blinding was enabled to counteract it. Note that this may have a quite noticeable impact on Elgamal decryption performance.

CVE-2015-0837

The modular exponentiation routine mpi_powm() was susceptible to a side-channel attack caused by data-dependent timing variations when accessing its internal pre-computed table.

CVE-2015-1606

The keyring parsing code did not properly reject certain packet types not belonging in a keyring, which caused an access to memory already freed. This could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted keyring files.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), those problems have been fixed in version 1.4.10-4+squeeze7.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.12-7+deb7u7.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2015/03/msg00012.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/gnupg

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 82160

File Name: debian_DLA-175.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2015

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: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnupg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnupg-curl, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnupg-udeb, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gpgv, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gpgv-udeb, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/17/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/20/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-3591, CVE-2015-0837, CVE-2015-1606

BID: 72609, 73064, 73066