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Debian: DSA 1231-1 Critical Updates for Gnupg Remote Execution Threats

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Calendar Grey December 9, 2006
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1231-1 http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff December 9th,
Updated package.

Summary


Werner Koch discovered that a buffer overflow in a sanitising function
may lead to execution of arbitrary code when running gnupg
interactively.

CVE-2006-6235

Tavis Ormandy discovered that parsing a carefully crafted OpenPGP
packet may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, as a function
pointer of an internal structure may be controlled through the
decryption routines.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.4.1-1.sarge6.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) these problems have been
fixed in version 1.4.6-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.4.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg packages.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
...

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