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FreeBSD : gnupg -- possible infinite recursion in the compressed packet parser (749b5587-2da1-11e3-b1a9-b499baab0cbe)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 70306

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Werner Koch reports :

Special crafted input data may be used to cause a denial of service against GPG (GnuPG's OpenPGP part) and some other OpenPGP implementations. All systems using GPG to process incoming data are affected..

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b2a574a4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 70306

File Name: freebsd_pkg_749b55872da111e3b1a9b499baab0cbe.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Published: 10/6/2013

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:gnupg, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 10/5/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/5/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4402