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Fedora 21 FEDORA-2015-5987 Critical GnuPG2 Update for Minor Issues

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Calendar Grey April 18, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The Ubuntu 20.04 OpenSSL update addresses minor vulnerabilities while offering various optimizations and new features.
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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security advisory critical software update Fedora secure communication data storage GnuPG2

Change Log

* Fri Apr 10 2015 Tomáš Mráz - 2.0.27-1 - new upstream release fixing minor security issues

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 .

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Name: gnupg2
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 2.0.27
Release: 1.fc21
URL: http://www.gnupg.org/
Summary: Utility for secure communication and data storage

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