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USN-2258-1: GnuPG vulnerability

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USN-2258-1: GnuPG vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/25/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
06/27/2014
Modified
07/09/2020

Description

The do_uncompress function in g10/compress.c in GnuPG 1.x before 1.4.17 and 2.x before 2.0.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via malformed compressed packets, as demonstrated by an a3 01 5b ff byte sequence.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-gnupg
  • ubuntu-upgrade-gnupg2

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