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Debian Stretch DSA-4223-1 Critical: GnuGPG Email Spoofing Risk

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Calendar Grey June 8, 2018
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Enhance GnuPG1 on Debian Stretch to address filename sanitization vulnerabilities, which could enable deception in email validation.
Marcus Brinkmann discovered that GnuGPG performed insufficient sanitisation of file names displayed in status messages, which could be abused to fake the verification status of a s...
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Summary

Details can be found in the upstream advisory at
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2018q2/000425.html

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.21-4+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg1 packages.

For the detailed security status of gnupg1 please refer to its security
tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/gnupg1

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: gnupg1
CVE ID: CVE-2018-12020

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