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%
New gnupg packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1,
and -current to fix a security issue.
Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog:
patches/packages/gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded.
This release includes a security fix to stop a denial of service using
garbled compressed data packets which can be used to put gpg into an
infinite loop.
For more information, see:
https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2014-4617
(* Security fix *)
Where to find the new packages:
Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab
(http://osuosl.org) for donating FTP and rsync hosting
to the Slackware project! :-)
Also see the “Get Slack” section on http://slackware.com for
additional mirror sites near you.
Updated package for Slackware 13.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.0/patches/packages/gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.0/patches/packages/gnupg-1.4.17-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware 13.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.1/patches/packages/gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.1/patches/packages/gnupg-1.4.17-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware 13.37:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-13.37/patches/packages/gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 13.37:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.37/patches/packages/gnupg-1.4.17-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/patches/packages/gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.0:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.0/patches/packages/gnupg-1.4.17-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Updated package for Slackware 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/patches/packages/gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 14.1:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/patches/packages/gnupg-1.4.17-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Updated package for Slackware -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/n/gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1.txz
Updated package for Slackware x86_64 -current:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/n/gnupg-1.4.17-x86_64-1.txz
MD5 signatures:
Slackware 13.0 package:
2a3448e3d468203be5458c357d6f05ef gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.0 package:
bd2c80dd4d2ae5a28c49026070bc7800 gnupg-1.4.17-x86_64-1_slack13.0.txz
Slackware 13.1 package:
0e49f54235b05a9b981af034c490b39d gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.1 package:
becc38f574d9af131e667e573b410af9 gnupg-1.4.17-x86_64-1_slack13.1.txz
Slackware 13.37 package:
f807d51cb4d1474aa41979c0a933ca1d gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware x86_64 13.37 package:
a7e2270d3992e827c7f62d3e64218e16 gnupg-1.4.17-x86_64-1_slack13.37.txz
Slackware 14.0 package:
bbc9a2603c167222daeac34fcdbfd15d gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.0 package:
e3fbe6149e0bad38952225c602788469 gnupg-1.4.17-x86_64-1_slack14.0.txz
Slackware 14.1 package:
42252dd42d19619ae2d40f85061f4cfc gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware x86_64 14.1 package:
032338eac243499017516e4d9bd8cece gnupg-1.4.17-x86_64-1_slack14.1.txz
Slackware -current package:
4eb3e45b7337197ff3281335147b2556 n/gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1.txz
Slackware x86_64 -current package:
f09b029cd5daa846a9e87bc4699cda81 n/gnupg-1.4.17-x86_64-1.txz
Installation instructions:
Upgrade the package as root:
> upgradepkg gnupg-1.4.17-i486-1_slack14.1.txz