Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-6169 - Remote Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Gnupg 1.4/2.0

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory 2006-1405.
#

include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(24066);
  script_version ("1.15");
  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:24");

  script_bugtraq_id(21306, 21462);
  script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2006-1405");

  script_name(english:"Fedora Core 5 : gnupg-1.4.6-1 (2006-1405)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages.");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis", 
    value:"The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description", 
    value:
"This update upgrades GnuPG to version 1.4.6, incorporating fixes for a
potential buffer overflow (CVE-2006-6169) and referencing of a stack
variable after it passes out of scope (CVE-2006-6235).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding
description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable
has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible
without introducing additional issues."
  );
  # https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2006-December/001063.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?289bba27"
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"solution", 
    value:"Update the affected gnupg and / or gnupg-debuginfo packages."
  );
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnupg");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:gnupg-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2006/12/06");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2007/01/17");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
  script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("global_settings.inc");
include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release");
if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora");
os_ver = eregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! ereg(pattern:"^5([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 5.x", "Fedora " + os_ver);

if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu);

flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"gnupg-1.4.6-1")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"FC5", reference:"gnupg-debuginfo-1.4.6-1")) flag++;


if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:rpm_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "gnupg / gnupg-debuginfo");
}