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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.703024
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-3024-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'gnupg' package(s) announced via the DSA-3024-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'gnupg' package(s) announced via the DSA-3024-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Genkin, Pipman and Tromer discovered a side-channel attack on Elgamal encryption subkeys ( CVE-2014-5270).

In addition, this update hardens GnuPG's behaviour when treating keyserver responses, GnuPG now filters keyserver responses to only accepts those keyid's actually requested by the user.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.12-7+deb7u6.

For the testing (jessie) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.18-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'gnupg' package(s) on Debian 7.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
2.1

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

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2014-5270
Debian Security Information: DSA-3024 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3024
Debian Security Information: DSA-3073 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3073
http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/handsoff/
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q3/000352.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/16/2
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