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Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200312-05 (GnuPG)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Gentoo Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

15 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200312-05.

Insight

Insight

A bug in GnuPG allows ElGamal signing keys to be compromised, and a format string bug in the gpgkeys_hkp utility may allow arbitrary code execution.

Solution

Solution

All users who have created ElGamal signing keys should immediately revoke them. In addition, all Gentoo Linux machines with gnupg installed should be updated to use gnupg-1.2.3-r5 or higher: # emerge sync # emerge -pv '>=app-crypt/gnupg-1.2.3-r5' # emerge '>=app-crypt/gnupg-1.2.3-r5' # emerge clean http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=GLSA%20200312-05 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34504 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gnupg-announce&m=106992378510843&q=raw http://www.s-quadra.com/advisories/Adv-20031203.txt

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