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Fedora 22 FEDORA-2016-6fd7a31d36: Critical pgpdump Endless Loop

fedora
Calendar Grey May 10, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential patch for pgpdump in Fedora 22 resolving a loop problem when interpreting specially designed input. Update immediately!
CVE-2016-4021 pgpdump: endless loop parsing specially crafted input

Summary

pgpdump is a PGP packet visualizer which displays the packet format of

OpenPGP (RFC 4880) and PGP version 2 (RFC 1991).

Update Information:

CVE-2016-4021 pgpdump: endless loop parsing specially crafted input

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue update Fedora pgpdump endless loop

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1328351 - CVE-2016-4021 pgpdump: endless loop parsing specially crafted input https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1328351

Update Instructions

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

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Name: pgpdump
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 0.30
Release: 1.fc22
URL: http://www.mew.org/~kazu/proj/pgpdump/
Summary: PGP packet visualizer

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue update Fedora pgpdump endless loop

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