Debian: DSA-2967-1: gnupg security update

Date 25 Jun 2014

Category Debian Linux Distribution - Security Advisories

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Posted By LinuxSecurity Advisories

Jean-RenÃ© Reinhard, Olivier Levillain and Florian Maury reported that GnuPG, the GNU Privacy Guard, did not properly parse certain garbled compressed data packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to mount a denial of service against GnuPG by triggering an infinite loop.


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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2967-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://www.debian.org/security/                      Salvatore Bonaccorso
June 25, 2014                          https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : gnupg
CVE ID         : CVE-2014-4617
Debian Bug     : 752497

Jean-RenÃ© Reinhard, Olivier Levillain and Florian Maury reported that
GnuPG, the GNU Privacy Guard, did not properly parse certain garbled
compressed data packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to mount
a denial of service against GnuPG by triggering an infinite loop.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.12-7+deb7u4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.16-1.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg packages.

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