Summary
The remote host is missing an update to gnupg
announced via advisory DSA 061-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20061-1
Insight
The version of GnuPG (GNU Privacy Guard, an OpenPGP implementation) as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 suffers from two problems:
fish stiqz reported on bugtraq that there was a printf format problem in the do_get() function: it printed a prompt which included the filename that was being decrypted without checking for possible printf format attacks. This could be exploited by tricking someone into decrypting a file with a specially crafted filename.
The second bug is related to importing secret keys: when gnupg imported a secret key it would immediately make the associated public key fully trusted which changes your web of trust without asking for a confirmation. To fix this you now need a special option to import a secret key.
Both problems have been fixed in version 1.0.6-0potato1.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2001-0522 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Related Vulnerabilities
- Debian Security Advisory DSA 078-1 (slrn)
- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1004-1 (vlc)
- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1011-1 (kernel-patch-vserver, util-vserver)
- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1020-1 (flex)
- Debian Security Advisory DSA 1070-1 (kernel-source-2.4.19,kernel-image-sparc-2.4,kernel-patch-2.4.19-mips)