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Fedora 22 GnuPG2 Security Update: Minor Issues Resolved

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Calendar Grey April 22, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
GnuPG 2.1.2 upgrade for Fedora 22 resolves slight bugs, improving secure messaging and information preservation.
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 security patch minor issues gnupg2 Fedora 22

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 .

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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

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security advisory security patch minor issues gnupg2 Fedora 22

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