Bug 42674

Summary:	gnupg 1.0.6 out, fixing format string exploit
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Chris Ricker <chris.ricker>
Component:	gnupg	Assignee:	Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version:	7.1	Keywords:	Security
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Description Chris Ricker 2001-05-29 13:11:13 UTC

Description of Problem:

GPG 1.0.5 and prior versions are vulnerable to format string exploits in
non-batch mode.  1.0.6 fixes this, according to the <A
HREF="http://www.gnupg.org/whatsnew.html#rn20010529">GnuPG web page</A>.

Presumably a more informative announcement from Werner is forthcoming....

Comment 1 Chris Ricker 2001-05-30 01:15:27 UTC

Exploits for this have now been posted to bugtraq

Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-05-30 13:44:05 UTC

An errata packages is being prepped.