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amazonAmazonALAS-2014-378
HistoryJul 23, 2014 - 1:50 p.m.

Medium: gnupg

2014-07-2313:50:00
alas.aws.amazon.com
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5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.013 Low

EPSS

Percentile

85.9%

Issue Overview:

The do_uncompress function in g10/compress.c in GnuPG 1.x before 1.4.17 and 2.x before 2.0.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via malformed compressed packets, as demonstrated by an a3 01 5b ff byte sequence.

Affected Packages:

gnupg

Issue Correction:
Run yum update gnupg to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    gnupg-1.4.18-1.25.amzn1.i686  
    gnupg-debuginfo-1.4.18-1.25.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    gnupg-1.4.18-1.25.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    gnupg-debuginfo-1.4.18-1.25.amzn1.x86_64  
    gnupg-1.4.18-1.25.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2014-4617

Mitre: CVE-2014-4617

5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.013 Low

EPSS

Percentile

85.9%