GnuPG2 vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 6.10

Details

USN-389-1 and USN-393-1 fixed vulnerabilities in gnupg. This update
provides the corresponding updates for gnupg2.

Original advisory details:

A buffer overflow was discovered in GnuPG. By tricking a user into
running gpg interactively on a specially crafted message, an attacker
could execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges. This
vulnerability is not exposed when running gpg in batch mode.
(CVE-2006-6169)

Tavis Ormandy discovered that gnupg was incorrectly using the stack.
If a user were tricked into processing a specially crafted message, an
attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges.
(CVE-2006-6235)