Bug 56846

Summary: gpg using insecure memory, should be installed suid
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Dennis Björklund <db>
Component: gnupgAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version: 7.2Keywords: Security
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Description Dennis Björklund 2001-11-28 18:58:39 UTC 
When I run gpg I get

gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!

According to gpg's manual it shuld be installed suid and it drops root
privileges as soon as locked memory is allocated.

Small change to the rpm is all that is needed.
Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2002-01-18 18:10:05 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 51913 ***