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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.705132
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-5132-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'ecdsautils' package(s) announced via the DSA-5132-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'ecdsautils' package(s) announced via the DSA-5132-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
It was discovered that ecdsautils, a collection of ECDSA elliptic curve cryptography CLI tools verified some cryptographic signatures incorrectly: A signature consisting only of zeroes was always considered valid, making it trivial to forge signatures.

For the oldstable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.2+git20151018-2+deb10u1.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.2+git20151018-2+deb11u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ecdsautils packages.

For the detailed security status of ecdsautils please refer to its security tracker page at: [link moved to references]

Affected Software/OS:
'ecdsautils' package(s) on Debian 10, Debian 11.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

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-2022-24884
https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/ecdsautils/security/advisories/GHSA-qhcg-9ffp-78pw
Debian Security Information: DSA-5132 (Google Search)
https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5132
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G2JT57AAFIEL7JDO2ZBV25JKYME5NU54/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/L7UBR3M4U3LA46BHXYSH7EN5GDG44GK7/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4AKQH5WCBMJA3ODCSNERY6HVX4BX3ITG/
https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/ecdsautils/commit/1d4b091abdf15ad7b2312535b5b95ad70f6dbd08
https://github.com/freifunk-gluon/ecdsautils/commit/39b6d0a77414fd41614953a0e185c4eefa2f88ad
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/05/msg00007.html
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