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RHEL 9 : gnupg2 (RHSA-2022:6602)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 165271

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for gnupg2.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6602 advisory.

 - gpg: Signature spoofing via status line injection (CVE-2022-34903)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL gnupg2 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2022:6602.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?98a98a2a

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6602

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2102868

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 165271

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-6602.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/21/2022

Updated: 4/23/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-34903

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnupg2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gnupg2-smime

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/20/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/1/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-34903

CWE: 347

RHSA: 2022:6602