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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56400
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian Security Advisory DSA 993-1 (gnupg)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update to gnupg announced via advisory DSA 993-1. Tavis Ormandy noticed that gnupg, the GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement, can be tricked to emit a good signature status message when a valid signature is included which does not belong to the data packet. The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.;; This VT has been deprecated and merged into the VT 'Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-993)' (OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56404).
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update to gnupg announced via advisory DSA 993-1. Tavis Ormandy noticed that gnupg, the GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement, can be tricked to emit a good signature status message when a valid signature is included which does not belong to the data packet. The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this problem.

This VT has been deprecated and merged into the VT 'Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-993)' (OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.56404).

Solution:
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.1-1.sarge3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.2.2-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg package.

CVSS Score:
5.0

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-0049
BugTraq ID: 17058
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17058
Bugtraq: 20060309 GnuPG does not detect injection of unsigned data (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427324/100/0/threaded
Debian Security Information: DSA-993 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-993
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-March/msg00021.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/433931/100/0/threaded
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-08.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:055
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q1/000216.html
http://www.osvdb.org/23790
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10063
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0266.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015749
http://secunia.com/advisories/19173
http://secunia.com/advisories/19197
http://secunia.com/advisories/19203
http://secunia.com/advisories/19231
http://secunia.com/advisories/19232
http://secunia.com/advisories/19234
http://secunia.com/advisories/19244
http://secunia.com/advisories/19249
http://secunia.com/advisories/19287
http://secunia.com/advisories/19532
SGI Security Advisory: 20060401-01-U
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060401-01-U
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.476477
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/450
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/568
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2006:014 (Google Search)
http://lists.suse.de/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Mar/0003.html
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0014
https://usn.ubuntu.com/264-1/
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0915
XForce ISS Database: gnupg-nondetached-sig-verification(25184)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25184
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