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Medium ALAS2-2019-1203 1 CVE

Moderate: gnupg2 security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published May 2, 2019 · Updated May 3, 2019

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-4617: 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. 1112509: CVE-2014-4617 gnupg: infinite loop when decompressing data packets

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 gnupg2 0:2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 gnupg2-debuginfo 0:2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 gnupg2-smime 0:2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.3

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2014-4617.html