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Fedora 24: Security Update on pgpdump FEDORA-2016-8f4b54b005 Critical Loop

fedora
Calendar Grey May 7, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Debian released a patch for pgpdump tackling CVE-2017-3912, concentrating on vulnerabilities in malformed data handling.
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 24
Version: 0.30
Release: 1.fc24
Summary: PGP packet visualizer

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