Amazon Linux AMI : gnupg (ALAS-2014-378)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 78321

Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

The do_uncompress function in g10/compress.c in GnuPG 1.x before 1.4.17 and 2.x before 2.0.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via malformed compressed packets, as demonstrated by an a3 01 5b ff byte sequence.

Solution

Run 'yum update gnupg' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2014-378.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 78321

File Name: ala_ALAS-2014-378.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/12/2014

Updated: 4/18/2018

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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:amazon:linux:gnupg, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:gnupg-debuginfo, cpe:/o:amazon:linux

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/23/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4617

ALAS: 2014-378