Important: gnupg2

Issue Overview:

A data validation flaw was found in the way gnupg processes file names during decryption and signature validation. An attacker may be able to inject messages into gnupg verbose message logging which may have the potential to bypass the integrity of signature authentication mechanisms and could have other unintended consequences if applications take action(s) based on parsed verbose gnupg output.(CVE-2018-12020)

Affected Packages:

gnupg2

Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.

Issue Correction:
Run yum update gnupg2 to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    gnupg2-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.2.i686  
    gnupg2-smime-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.2.i686  
    gnupg2-debuginfo-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.2.i686  
  
src:  
    gnupg2-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.2.src  
  
x86_64:  
    gnupg2-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.2.x86_64  
    gnupg2-smime-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.2.x86_64  
    gnupg2-debuginfo-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.2.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2018-12020

Mitre: CVE-2018-12020