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Status published
Medium
CVE-2014-4617
The do_uncompress function in g10/compress.c in GnuPG 1.x before 1.4.17...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59351
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59578
- http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q2/000345.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2967
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-07/msg00010.html
- http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=014b2103fcb12f261135e3954f26e9e07b39e342
- 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://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=11fdfcf82bd8d2b5bc38292a29876e10770f4b0a
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59534
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59213
- http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q2/000344.html
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
gnupg, debian linux, opensuse
Vulnerable Versions:
2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.0.7, 2.0.8, 2.0.10, 2.0.11, 2.0.12, 2.0.13, 2.0.14, 2.0.15, 2.0.16, 2.0.17, 2.0.18, 2.0.19, 2.0.20, 2.0.21, 2.0.22, 2.0.23, 0, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 1.2.5, 1.2.6, 1.2.7, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 1.3.6, 1.3.90, 1.3.91, 1.3.92, 1.3.93, 1.4.0, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 1.4.5, 1.4.8, 1.4.10, 1.4.11, 1.4.12, 1.4.13, 1.4.14, 1.4.15, 7.0, 12.3, 13.1
Timeline
Official Publish:
June 25th, 2014
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.