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Cent OS: CVE-2012-6085: CESA-2013:1458 (gnupg)

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Cent OS: CVE-2012-6085: CESA-2013:1458 (gnupg)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/23/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

The read_block function in g10/import.c in GnuPG 1.4.x before 1.4.13 and 2.0.x through 2.0.19, when importing a key, allows remote attackers to corrupt the public keyring database or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted length field of an OpenPGP packet.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-gnupg
  • centos-upgrade-gnupg2
  • centos-upgrade-gnupg2-smime

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