Debian Security Advisory DSA 2601-1 (gnupg, Gnupg2 - Missing Input Sanitation) Network Vulnerability

Summary

KB Sriram discovered that GnuPG, the GNU Privacy Guard did not sufficiently sanitise public keys on import, which could lead to memory and keyring corruption. The problem affects both version 1, in the gnupg package, and version two, in the gnupg2 package.

Solution

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.10-4+squeeze1 of gnupg and version 2.0.14-2+squeeze1 of gnupg2. For the testing distribution (wheezy) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.12-7 of gnupg and version 2.0.19-2 of gnupg2. We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg and/or gnupg2 packages.

Insight

GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures.

Affected

gnupg, gnupg2 on Debian Linux

Detection

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

References