Debian DSA-3024-1 : gnupg - security update

low Nessus Plugin ID 77671

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Genkin, Pipman and Tromer discovered a side-channel attack on Elgamal encryption subkeys (CVE-2014-5270 ).

In addition, this update hardens GnuPG's behaviour when treating keyserver responses; GnuPG now filters keyserver responses to only accepts those keyid's actually requested by the user.

Solution

Upgrade the gnupg packages.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.12-7+deb7u6.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725411

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-5270

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/gnupg

https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3024

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 77671

File Name: debian_DSA-3024.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/14/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gnupg, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/11/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-5270

BID: 69164

DSA: 3024