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Pardus: 2010-105: Gnupg: Arbitrary Code Execution
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
A vulnerability has been fixed in GnuPG, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2010-105 security@pardus.org.tr
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Date: 2010-08-11
Severity: 3
Type: Remote
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Summary
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A vulnerability has been fixed in GnuPG, which can be exploited by
malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.
Description
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CVE-2010-2547:
Use-after-free vulnerability in kbx/keybox-blob.c in GPGSM in GnuPG 2.x
through 2.0.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a certificate with a
large number of Subject Alternate Names, which is not properly handled
in a realloc operation when importing the certificate or verifying its
signature.
Affected packages:
Pardus 2009:
gnupg, all before 2.0.11-27-5
Resolution
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There are update(s) for gnupg. You can update them via Package Manager
or with a single command from console:
pisi up gnupg
References
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* http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id906
* http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-2547
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