Bug 1112678 - gnupg2: possible DoS using garbled compressed data packets
Summary: gnupg2: possible DoS using garbled compressed data packets
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1112509
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1112510 1112511 1112681 1112683
Blocks: 1112680
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-06-24 13:23 UTC by Vasyl Kaigorodov
Modified: 2020-11-05 10:33 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: gnupg2 2.0.24
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-06-24 13:48:34 UTC
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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 ***
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