Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1231-1 gnupg -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 09 Dec 2006
- Affected Packages:
- gnupg
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 401894, Bug 401898, Bug 401914.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-6169, CVE-2006-6235. - More information:
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Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the GNU privacy guard, a free PGP replacement, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- CVE-2006-6169
Werner Koch discovered that a buffer overflow in a sanitising function may lead to execution of arbitrary code when running gnupg interactively.
- CVE-2006-6235
Tavis Ormandy discovered that parsing a carefully crafted OpenPGP packet may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, as a function pointer of an internal structure may be controlled through the decryption routines.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.1-1.sarge6.
For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.6-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.6-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg packages.
- CVE-2006-6169
- Fixed in:
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Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_arm.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_ia64.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.