Bug 218505

Summary:	CVE-2006-6169 GnuPG heap overflow
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak>
Component:	gnupg	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	4.4	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue728
Whiteboard:	impact=low,reported=20061128,source=gnupg,public=20061124
Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2006-0754	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Blocks:	218506

Description Lubomir Kundrak 2006-12-05 19:36:19 UTC

Description of problem:

If make_printable_string() returns a string longer than one given as an
argument, a heap-based buffer overflow occurs in openfile.c:ask_outfile_name()

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

RHEL-2.1, RHEL-3, RHEL-4, RHEL-5, FC-5, FC-6

Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-12-06 17:54:14 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0754.html