Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.59076
Category:	Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:	Ubuntu USN-393-1 (gnupg)
Summary:	Ubuntu USN-393-1 (gnupg)
Description:	The remote host is missing an update to gnupg announced via advisory USN-393-1. A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 5.10 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 6.10 This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. Details follow: Tavis Ormandy discovered that gnupg was incorrectly using the stack. If a user were tricked into processing a specially crafted message, an attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges. Solution: The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 5.10: gnupg 1.4.1-1ubuntu1.6 Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: gnupg 1.4.2.2-1ubuntu2.4 Ubuntu 6.10: gnupg 1.4.3-2ubuntu3.2 In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-393-1 Risk factor : Critical
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-6235 Bugtraq: 20061206 GnuPG: remotely controllable function pointer [CVE-2006-6235] (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/453664/100/0/threaded Bugtraq: 20061206 rPSA-2006-0227-1 gnupg (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/453723/100/0/threaded http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q4/000491.html Debian Security Information: DSA-1231 (Google Search) http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1231 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-03.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:228 http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.037.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0754.html SGI Security Advisory: 20061201-01-P ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061201-01-P.asc SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2006:028 (Google Search) http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_28_sr.html SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2006:075 (Google Search) http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Dec/0004.html http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0070 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-393-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-393-2 CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#427009 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/427009 BugTraq ID: 21462 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21462 http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11245 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4881 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017349 http://secunia.com/advisories/23245 http://secunia.com/advisories/23250 http://secunia.com/advisories/23255 http://secunia.com/advisories/23269 http://secunia.com/advisories/23259 http://secunia.com/advisories/23299 http://secunia.com/advisories/23303 http://secunia.com/advisories/23329 http://secunia.com/advisories/23290 http://secunia.com/advisories/23335 http://secunia.com/advisories/23284 http://secunia.com/advisories/23513 http://secunia.com/advisories/24047 XForce ISS Database: gnupg-openpgp-code-execution(30711) http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/30711
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