Bug 56846 - gpg using insecure memory, should be installed suid
Summary: gpg using insecure memory, should be installed suid
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 51913
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: gnupg
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-11-28 18:58 UTC by Dennis Björklund
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-11-28 18:58:45 UTC
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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 ***
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