Debian Security Advisory
DLA-0012-1 gnupg -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 30 Jun 2014
- Affected Packages:
- gnupg
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 752497.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-4617. - More information:
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Jean-Rene Reinhard, Olivier Levillain and Florian Maury reported that GnuPG, the GNU Privacy Guard, did not properly parse certain garbled compressed data packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to mount a denial of service against GnuPG by triggering an infinite loop.
For Debian 6
Squeeze
, these issues have been fixed in gnupg version 1.4.10-4+squeeze5