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Fedora 20: FEDORA-2015-5969 moderate: GnuPG2 Security Advisory

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Calendar Grey April 22, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest patch addresses small vulnerabilities in gnupg2, strengthening its encryption protocols and safeguarding data transfer and storage capabilities.
Updated package from upstream fixing minor security issues.

Summary

GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can

be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes

an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed

OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440 and the S/MIME

standard as described by several RFCs.

GnuPG 2.0 is a newer version of GnuPG with additional support for

S/MIME. It has a different design philosophy that splits

functionality up into several modules. The S/MIME and smartcard functionality

is provided by the gnupg2-smime package.

Update Information:

Updated package from upstream fixing minor security issues.

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Topics Covered

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Change Log

* Fri Apr 10 2015 Tomáš Mráz - 2.0.27-1 - new upstream release fixing minor security issues * Sat Aug 16 2014 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.0.25-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild * Tue Aug 5 2014 Tomáš Mráz - 2.0.25-1 - new upstream release fixing a minor regression introduced by the previous one - add --file-is-digest option needed for copr * Sat Jul 12 2014 Tom Callaway - 2.0.24-2 - fix license handling * Wed Jun 25 2014 Tomáš Mráz - 2.0.24-1 - new upstream release fixing CVE-2014-4617 * Sat Jun 7 2014 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.0.22-4 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild * Wed May 7 2014 Tomáš Mráz - 2.0.22-3 - do not dump core if hash algorithm not available in the FIPS mode * Tue Mar 4 2014 Tomáš Mráz - 2.0.22-2 - rebuilt against new libgcrypt

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1178759 - gnupg2: double free in cmd_readkey() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1178759

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update gnupg2' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Name: gnupg2
Product: Fedora 20
Version: 2.0.27
Release: 1.fc20
URL: http://www.gnupg.org/
Summary: Utility for secure communication and data storage

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security advisory security issue update Fedora gnupg2 minor issue

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