Bug 56846 – gpg using insecure memory, should be installed suid

Bug 56846 - gpg using insecure memory, should be installed suid

Summary:	gpg using insecure memory, should be installed suid

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 51913

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	gnupg (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact:	Aaron Brown
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Reported:	2001-11-28 13:58 EST by Dennis Björklund
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-11-28 13:58:45 EST
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Description Dennis Björklund 2001-11-28 13:58:39 EST

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 13:10:05 EST


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

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