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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-5943
2015-04-10 17:05:22
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Name        : gnupg2
Product     : Fedora 22
Version     : 2.1.2
Release     : 2.fc22
URL         : http://www.gnupg.org/
Summary     : Utility for secure communication and data storage
Description :
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.

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Update Information:

Updated package from upstream fixing minor security issues.

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References:

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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/security/
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Fedora 22: gnupg2 Security Update

April 22, 2015
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.

Change Log

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 .

Severity
Name : gnupg2
Product : Fedora 22
Version : 2.1.2
Release : 2.fc22
URL : http://www.gnupg.org/
Summary : Utility for secure communication and data storage

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