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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-9234: Security patch for gnupg2 (ALAS-2018-1025)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-9234: Security patch for gnupg2 (ALAS-2018-1025)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
04/03/2018
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/31/2018
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

GnuPG 2.2.4 and 2.2.5 does not enforce a configuration in which key certification requires an offline master Certify key, which results in apparently valid certifications that occurred only with access to a signing subkey.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-gnupg2

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