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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2967-1 gnupg -- security update

Date Reported:

25 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:

Jean-René 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 the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.12-7+deb7u4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.16-1.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg packages.