Summary
The remote host is missing an update to gnupg
announced via advisory DSA 978-1.
Tavis Ormandy noticed that gnupg, the GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement, verifies external signatures of files successfully even though they don't contain a signature at all.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.6-4woody4.
Solution
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.1-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg package.
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20978-1
Severity
Classification
-
CVE CVE-2006-0455 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Related Vulnerabilities