Debian: DSA-1123-1 Critical: GnuPG Denial Of Service Memory Leak
debian
July 21, 2006
Evgeny Legerov discovered that gnupg, the GNU privacy guard, a free PGP replacement contains an integer overflow that can cause a segmentation fault and possibly overwrite memory v...
Summary
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.4.3-2 of GnuPG, a fix for GnuPG2 is pending.
We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg package.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given at the end of this advisory:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
Size/MD5 checksum: 854 d7f54b50b8c569566cfe0b865ec20323
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Size/MD5 checksum: 5454978 ee3885e2c74a9c1ae539d6f12091c30b
Alpha architecture:
Size/MD5 checksum: 112318 e806b0cedb8ed0914e6e035d042acdd0
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