[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: pgpdump-0.30-1.fc24

pgpdump is a PGP packet visualizer which displays the packet format of OpenPGP RFC 4880 and PGP version 2 RFC 1991...

F5 BIG-IP - GnuPG vulnerability CVE-2012-6085

The remote host is missing a security patch. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/h:f5:big-ip"; if description...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : GnuPG vulnerability (SOL40131068)

The compressed packet parser in GnuPG 1.4.x before 1.4.15 and 2.0.x before 2.0.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service infinite recursion via a crafted OpenPGP message. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from F5...

Updated bind packages fix security vulnerabilities

Updated bind packages fix security vulnerability: Parsing a malformed DNSSEC key can cause a validating resolver to exit due to a failed assertion in buffer.c. It is possible for a remote attacker to deliberately trigger this condition, for example by using a query which requires a response from ...

BIND OpenPGP Key Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability

ISC BIND is a very widely used implementation of the DNS protocol, maintained by ISC. A boundary input validation vulnerability in ISC BIND 'openpgpkey61.c' allows a remote user to return a special answer that crashes the target named service...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: gnutls-3.3.17-1.fc21

GnuTLS is a secure communications library implementing the SSL, TLS and DTLS protocols and technologies around them. It provides a simple C language application programming interface API to access the secure communications protocols as well as APIs to parse and write X.509, PKCS 12, OpenPGP and...

USN-2699-1 hplip vulnerability

Enrico Zini discovered that HPLIP used a short GPG key ID when downloading keys from the keyserver. An attacker could possibly use this to return a different key with a duplicate short key id and perform a machine-in-the-middle attack on printer plugin installations...

Facebook Adds PGP Encryption Feature to Email

Facebook announced early Monday that the social network is in the process of adopting OpenPGP encryption and that it will give privacy conscious users the ability to post their public keys on their profile. The feature, which is gradually rolling out to users today, should better lock down messag...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: gnutls-3.3.15-1.fc21

GnuTLS is a secure communications library implementing the SSL, TLS and DTLS protocols and technologies around them. It provides a simple C language application programming interface API to access the secure communications protocols as well as APIs to parse and write X.509, PKCS 12, OpenPGP and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: gnutls-3.3.15-1.fc22

GnuTLS is a secure communications library implementing the SSL, TLS and DTLS protocols and technologies around them. It provides a simple C language application programming interface API to access the secure communications protocols as well as APIs to parse and write X.509, PKCS 12, OpenPGP and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: gnupg2-2.1.2-2.fc22

GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440 and the S/MIME standard as described...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: gnutls-3.3.14-1.fc22

GnuTLS is a secure communications library implementing the SSL, TLS and DTLS protocols and technologies around them. It provides a simple C language application programming interface API to access the secure communications protocols as well as APIs to parse and write X.509, PKCS 12, OpenPGP and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: gnupg2-2.0.27-1.fc21

GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440 and the S/MIME standard as described...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : libksba (MDVSA-2015:151)

Updated libksba packages fix security vulnerability : By using special crafted S/MIME messages or ECC based OpenPGP data, it is possible to create a buffer overflow, which could lead to a denial of service CVE-2014-9087. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text an...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: gnupg-1.4.19-2.fc20

GnuPG GNU Privacy Guard is a GNU utility for encrypting data and creating digital signatures. GnuPG has advanced key management capabilities and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard described in RFC2440. Since GnuPG doesn't use any patented algorithm, it is not compatible with...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: gnupg-1.4.19-1.fc22

GnuPG GNU Privacy Guard is a GNU utility for encrypting data and creating digital signatures. GnuPG has advanced key management capabilities and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard described in RFC2440. Since GnuPG doesn't use any patented algorithm, it is not compatible with...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: gnupg-1.4.19-1.fc21

GnuPG GNU Privacy Guard is a GNU utility for encrypting data and creating digital signatures. GnuPG has advanced key management capabilities and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard described in RFC2440. Since GnuPG doesn't use any patented algorithm, it is not compatible with...

Tails 1.3 - The Amnesic Incognito Live System

Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity , and helps you to: use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship ; all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the...

GnuPG Email Encryption Project Relies on 'Werner Koch', and He is Running Out of Funds

Werner Koch, the man who authored the free email encryption software, is running out of funding to continue the development of his crucial open-source GNU Privacy Guard GnuPG encryption tools.The code works on plenty of operating systems from Linux and FreeBSD to Windows and OS X. The popular Gnu...

Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : gnupg (cve_2013_4351_cryptographic_issues)

The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates : - GnuPG 1.4.x, 2.0.x, and 2.1.x treats a key flags subpacket with all bits cleared no usage permitted as if it has all bits set all usage permitted, which might allow remote attackers to bypass intended...