Executive Summary

Summary
Title GnuPG vulnerability
Informations
Name USN-3733-1 First vendor Publication 2018-08-07
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2018-08-07
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

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:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

GnuPG could be made to expose sensitive information.

Software Description: - - gnupg: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement

Details:

Daniel J. Bernstein, Joachim Breitner, Daniel Genkin, Leon Groot Bruinderink, Nadia Heninger, Tanja Lange, Christine van Vredendaal, and Yuval Yarom discovered that GnuPG is vulnerable to a cache side-channel attack. A local attacker could use this attack to recover RSA private keys.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
gnupg 1.4.20-1ubuntu3.3
gnupg-curl 1.4.20-1ubuntu3.3
gpgv 1.4.20-1ubuntu3.3

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
gnupg 1.4.16-1ubuntu2.6
gnupg-curl 1.4.16-1ubuntu2.6
gpgv 1.4.16-1ubuntu2.6

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://usn.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3733-1
CVE-2017-7526, https://launchpad.net/bugs/1785176

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg/1.4.20-1ubuntu3.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg/1.4.16-1ubuntu2.6

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Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3733-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-310 Cryptographic Issues

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 18
Os 3
Os 2

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-06-11 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_7da0417f6b2411e884cc002590acae31.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-05 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3960.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-09-01 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1080.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-08-03 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2017-213-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-21 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-3b70d0b976.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-17 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-22107b1986.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-10 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2017-796.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-07 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1015.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-07 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-1793-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-07 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2017-1794-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-05 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2017-a348b32eb5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-05 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : ubuntu_USN-3347-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-03 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3901.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-07-03 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_ed3bf4335d9211e7aa14e8e0b747a45a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-06-30 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2017-180-04.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2018-08-07 13:19:39
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