Bug 1328351 (CVE-2016-4021, SYSS-2016-030)

Summary: CVE-2016-4021 pgpdump: endless loop parsing specially crafted input
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Fixed In Version: pgpdump 0.30 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Bug Depends On: 1328353, 1328354, 1328355    
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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-04-19 08:05:24 UTC
A flaw was discovered in pgpdump. When pgpdump is run on specially crafted input, a Denial-of-Service condition occurs. The program runs with 100% CPU usage for an indefinite amount of time.

External references:

https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2016-030.txt

References:

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Apr/99

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/pgpdump/pull/16

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-04-19 08:07:04 UTC
Created pgpdump tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1328353]
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1328354]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1328355]

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2016-05-07 11:49:24 UTC
pgpdump-0.30-1.fc24 has been pushed to the Fedora 24 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2016-05-10 17:53:35 UTC
pgpdump-0.30-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2016-05-10 18:00:31 UTC
pgpdump-0.30-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2016-05-27 23:49:40 UTC
pgpdump-0.31-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2016-06-01 11:46:52 UTC
pgpdump-0.31-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.