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Fedora 23: pgpdump Security Advisory - CVE-2016-4021 Critical Loop Issue

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important patch released for pgpdump resolves infinite loop vulnerability found in malformed data streams. Ensure your system is updated if running Fedora 23.
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

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 23
Version: 0.30
Release: 1.fc23
Summary: PGP packet visualizer

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