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Ubuntu 14.10 USN-2554-1 Moderate: GnuPG Denial Of Service Risk

Ubuntu Large Esm H500
Several security issues were fixed in GnuPG.
=========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2554-1
April 01, 2015

gnupg, gnupg2 vulnerabilities
=========================================================================
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.10
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in GnuPG.

Software Description:
- gnupg: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement
- gnupg2: GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement

Details:

Daniel Genkin, Lev Pachmanov, Itamar Pipman, and Eran Tromer discovered
that GnuPG was susceptible to an attack via physical side channels. A local
attacker could use this attack to possibly recover private keys.
(CVE-2014-3591)

Daniel Genkin, Adi Shamir, and Eran Tromer discovered that GnuPG was
susceptible to an attack via physical side channels. A local attacker could
use this attack to possibly recover private keys. (CVE-2015-0837)

Hanno Böck discovered that GnuPG incorrectly handled certain malformed
keyrings. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a
malformed keyring, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause GnuPG to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2015-1606, CVE-2015-1607)

In addition, this update improves GnuPG security by validating that the
keys returned by keyservers match those requested.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 14.10:
  gnupg                           1.4.16-1.2ubuntu1.2
  gnupg2                          2.0.24-1ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  gnupg                           1.4.16-1ubuntu2.3
  gnupg2                          2.0.22-3ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  gnupg                           1.4.11-3ubuntu2.9
  gnupg2                          2.0.17-2ubuntu2.12.04.6

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
  gnupg                           1.4.10-2ubuntu1.8

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2554-1
  CVE-2014-3591, CVE-2014-5270, CVE-2015-0837, CVE-2015-1606,
  CVE-2015-1607

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg/1.4.16-1.2ubuntu1.2
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg2/2.0.24-1ubuntu2.2
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg/1.4.16-1ubuntu2.3
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg2/2.0.22-3ubuntu1.3
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg/1.4.11-3ubuntu2.9
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg2/2.0.17-2ubuntu2.12.04.6
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg/1.4.10-2ubuntu1.8


Ubuntu 14.10 USN-2554-1 Moderate: GnuPG Denial Of Service Risk

ubuntu
Calendar Grey April 1, 2015
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A recent update for Ubuntu has resolved several security vulnerabilities in GnuPG, including problems related to key recovery and potential denial of service attacks.
Several security issues were fixed in GnuPG.

Summary

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 14.10: gnupg 1.4.16-1.2ubuntu1.2 gnupg2 2.0.24-1ubuntu2.2 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: gnupg 1.4.16-1ubuntu2.3 gnupg2 2.0.22-3ubuntu1.3 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: gnupg 1.4.11-3ubuntu2.9 gnupg2 2.0.17-2ubuntu2.12.04.6 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS: gnupg 1.4.10-2ubuntu1.8 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2554-1

CVE-2014-3591, CVE-2014-5270, CVE-2015-0837, CVE-2015-1606,

CVE-2015-1607

Severity
important
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April 01, 2015

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg/1.4.16-1.2ubuntu1.2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg2/2.0.24-1ubuntu2.2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg/1.4.16-1ubuntu2.3 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg2/2.0.22-3ubuntu1.3 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg/1.4.11-3ubuntu2.9 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg2/2.0.17-2ubuntu2.12.04.6 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnupg/1.4.10-2ubuntu1.8

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