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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1115-1 (gnupg2)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

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Summary

The remote host is missing an update to gnupg2 announced via advisory DSA 1115-1. Evgeny Legerov discovered that gnupg, the GNU privacy guard, a free PGP replacement contains an integer overflow that can cause a segmentation fault and possibly overwrite memory via a large user ID strings.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.1-1.sarge4 of GnuPG and in version 1.9.15-6sarge1 of GnuPG2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.3-2 of GnuPG, a fix for GnuPG2 is pending. We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg package. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201115-1

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