USN-304-1: gnupg vulnerability
27 June 2006
gnupg vulnerability
Releases
Details
Evgeny Legerov discovered that GnuPG did not sufficiently check overly
large user ID packets. Specially crafted user IDs caused a buffer
overflow. By tricking an user or remote automated system into
processing a malicous GnuPG message, an attacker could exploit this to
crash GnuPG or possibly even execute arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 6.06
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gnupg
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1.4.2.2-1ubuntu2.1
Ubuntu 5.10
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gnupg
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1.4.1-1ubuntu1.3
Ubuntu 5.04
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gnupg
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1.2.5-3ubuntu5.4
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.