Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1115-1 gnupg2 -- integer overflow

Date Reported:
21 Jul 2006
Affected Packages:
gnupg2
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-3082.
More information:

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 string.

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.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge1_m68k.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.