CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS
Percentile
5.3%
An updated libgcrypt package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.
The libgcrypt library provides general-purpose implementations of various cryptographic algorithms.
It was found that GnuPG was vulnerable to the Yarom/Falkner flush+reload cache side-channel attack on the RSA secret exponent. An attacker able to execute a process on the logical CPU that shared the L3 cache with the GnuPG process (such as a different local user or a user of a KVM guest running on the same host with the kernel same-page merging functionality enabled) could possibly use this flaw to obtain portions of the RSA secret key. (CVE-2013-4242)
All libgcrypt users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to correct this issue.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2013:1457 and
# CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2013:1457 respectively.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(70633);
script_version("1.10");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2013-4242");
script_bugtraq_id(61464);
script_xref(name:"RHSA", value:"2013:1457");
script_name(english:"CentOS 5 / 6 : libgcrypt (CESA-2013:1457)");
script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated packages");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"An updated libgcrypt package that fixes one security issue is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having
moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)
base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from
the CVE link in the References section.
The libgcrypt library provides general-purpose implementations of
various cryptographic algorithms.
It was found that GnuPG was vulnerable to the Yarom/Falkner
flush+reload cache side-channel attack on the RSA secret exponent. An
attacker able to execute a process on the logical CPU that shared the
L3 cache with the GnuPG process (such as a different local user or a
user of a KVM guest running on the same host with the kernel same-page
merging functionality enabled) could possibly use this flaw to obtain
portions of the RSA secret key. (CVE-2013-4242)
All libgcrypt users are advised to upgrade to this updated package,
which contains a backported patch to correct this issue."
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2013-October/019988.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?8ac0a5a9"
);
# https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2013-October/019992.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?edd848ba"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Update the affected libgcrypt packages."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2013-4242");
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:centos:centos:libgcrypt");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:libgcrypt-devel");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:5");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:centos:centos:6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2013/08/19");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2013/10/24");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2013/10/27");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"CentOS Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/CentOS/release", "Host/CentOS/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/CentOS/release");
if (isnull(release) || "CentOS" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS");
os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "CentOS(?: Linux)? release ([0-9]+)", string:release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "CentOS");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^(5|6)([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "CentOS 5.x / 6.x", "CentOS " + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/CentOS/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu");
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "CentOS", cpu);
flag = 0;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-5", reference:"libgcrypt-1.4.4-7.el5_10")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-5", reference:"libgcrypt-devel-1.4.4-7.el5_10")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"libgcrypt-1.4.5-11.el6_4")) flag++;
if (rpm_check(release:"CentOS-6", reference:"libgcrypt-devel-1.4.5-11.el6_4")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_NOTE,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "libgcrypt / libgcrypt-devel");
}