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High ALAS2-2018-1045 1 CVE

Important: gnupg2 security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Aug 8, 2018 · Updated Aug 9, 2018

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2018-12020: A data validation flaw was found in the way gnupg processes file names during decryption and signature validation. An attacker may be able to inject messages into gnupg verbose message logging which may have the potential to bypass the integrity of signature authentication mechanisms and could have other unintended consequences if applications take action(s) based on parsed verbose gnupg output. 1589620: CVE-2018-12020 gnupg2: Improper sanitization of filenames allows for the display of fake status messages and the bypass of signature verification

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 gnupg2 0:2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 gnupg2-debuginfo 0:2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 gnupg2-smime 0:2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2018-12020.html