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Unscored USN-2258-1 1 CVE

gnupg, gnupg2 vulnerability

Published Jun 26, 2014 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Summary

Jean-René Reinhard, Olivier Levillain and Florian Maury discovered that
GnuPG incorrectly handled certain OpenPGP messages. If a user or automated
system were tricked into processing a specially-crafted message, GnuPG
could consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS gnupg 1.4.16-1ubuntu2.1
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS gnupg2 2.0.22-3ubuntu1.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4617