Executive Summary

Summary
Title New GnuPG packages fix denial of service
Informations
Name DSA-1140 First vendor Publication 2006-08-03
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2006-08-03
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Evgeny Legerov discovered that overly large comments can crash gnupg, the GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.1-1.sarge5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.5-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg package.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1140

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11347
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11347
Title: Integer overflow in parse_comment in GnuPG (gpg) 1.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted message.
Description: Integer overflow in parse_comment in GnuPG (gpg) 1.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted message.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2006-3746
Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
CentOS Linux 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-10-10 Name : SLES9: Security update for gpg
File : nvt/sles9p5021703.nasl
2009-02-27 Name : Fedora Update for gnupg FEDORA-2007-316
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2007_316_gnupg_fc5.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200608-08 (gnupg)
File : nvt/glsa_200608_08.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1140-1 (gnupg)
File : nvt/deb_1140_1.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1141-1 (gnupg2)
File : nvt/deb_1141_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
27664 GnuPG parse_comment Function Crafted Message Overflow DoS

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-01-10 GnuPG Message Packet Length overflow attempt
RuleID : 17697 - Revision : 5 - Type : POLICY-SOCIAL

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2006-0615.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-12-13 Name : The remote SuSE 10 host is missing a security-related patch.
File : suse_gpg-1959.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-11-10 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-332-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-10-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_gpg-1955.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-10-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_gpg2-1956.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-12-16 Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mandrake_MDKSA-2006-141.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-10-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1140.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-10-14 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1141.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-08-07 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2006-0615.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-08-07 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200608-08.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2006-08-04 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2006-0615.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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