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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2022-6463 moderate: gpg signature spoofing

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Calendar Grey September 13, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A significant patch for gnupg2 has been released on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, fixing a vulnerability related to signature spoofing. Learn more about it here.
An update for gnupg2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is a tool for encrypting data and creating digital signatures, compliant with OpenPGP and S/MIME standards.
Security Fix(es):
* gpg: Signature spoofing via status line injection (CVE-2022-34903)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity security impact signature spoofing gnupg2 update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-34903 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: gnupg2-2.2.20-3.el8_6.src.rpm
aarch64: gnupg2-2.2.20-3.el8_6.aarch64.rpm gnupg2-debuginfo-2.2.20-3.el8_6.aarch64.rpm gnupg2-debugsource-2.2.20-3.el8_6.aarch64.rpm gnupg2-smime-2.2.20-3.el8_6.aarch64.rpm gnupg2-smime-debuginfo-2.2.20-3.el8_6.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: gnupg2-2.2.20-3.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm gnupg2-debuginfo-2.2.20-3.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm gnupg2-debugsource-2.2.20-3.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm gnupg2-smime-2.2.20-3.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm gnupg2-smime-debuginfo-2.2.20-3.el8_6.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: gnupg2-2.2.20-3.el8_6.s390x.rpm gnupg2-debuginfo-2.2.20-3.el8_6.s390x.rpm gnupg2-debugsource-2.2.20-3.el8_6.s390x.rpm gnupg2-smime-2.2.20-3.el8_6.s390x.rpm gnupg2-smime-debuginfo-2.2.20-3.el8_6.s390x.rpm
x86_64: gnupg2-2.2.20-3.el8_6.x86_64.rpm gnupg2-debuginfo-2.2.20-3.el8_6.x86_64.rpm gnupg2-debugsource-2.2.20-3.el8_6.x86_64.rpm gnupg2-smime-2.2.20-3.el8_6.x86_64.rpm gnupg2-smime-debuginfo-2.2.20-3.el8_6.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:6463-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6463
Issue date: 2022-09-13

Topic

An update for gnupg2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity security impact signature spoofing gnupg2 update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2102868 - CVE-2022-34903 gpg: Signature spoofing via status line injection

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