CVE-2014-4617

Description

The do_uncompress function in g10/compress.c in GnuPG 1.x before 1.4.17 and 2.x before 2.0.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via malformed compressed packets, as demonstrated by an a3 01 5b ff byte sequence.

References

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2258-1

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2968

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2967

http://secunia.com/advisories/59578

http://secunia.com/advisories/59534

http://secunia.com/advisories/59351

http://secunia.com/advisories/59213

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-07/msg00010.html

http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q2/000345.html

http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q2/000344.html

http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=11fdfcf82bd8d2b5bc38292a29876e10770f4b0a

http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=014b2103fcb12f261135e3954f26e9e07b39e342

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3