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Ubuntu: USN-4516-1 (CVE-2019-14855): GnuPG vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4516-1 (CVE-2019-14855): GnuPG vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
03/20/2020
Created
09/22/2020
Added
09/18/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

A flaw was found in the way certificate signatures could be forged using collisions found in the SHA-1 algorithm. An attacker could use this weakness to create forged certificate signatures. This issue affects GnuPG versions before 2.2.18.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-gnupg

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