Bug 1112678

Summary:	gnupg2: possible DoS using garbled compressed data packets
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Vasyl Kaigorodov <vkaigoro>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	bcl, jrusnack, rdieter, slukasik, tmraz
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	gnupg2 2.0.24	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2014-06-24 13:48:34 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1112510, 1112511, 1112681, 1112683
Bug Blocks:	1112680

Description Vasyl Kaigorodov 2014-06-24 13:23:37 UTC

It was reported that upcoming GnuPG-2 release will include a security fix to stop
a possible DoS using garbled compressed data packets which can be used
to put gpg into an infinite loop.

[1]: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q2/626

Upstream patch:
  http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=commitdiff;h=014b2103fcb1

Comment 1 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2014-06-24 13:26:54 UTC

Created gnupg2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1112681]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 1112683]

Comment 2 Vasyl Kaigorodov 2014-06-24 13:48:34 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1112509 ***