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Unscored USN-3675-1 2 CVEs

gnupg, gnupg2 vulnerabilities

Published Jun 11, 2018 · Updated Apr 27, 2026

Summary

Marcus Brinkmann discovered that during decryption or verification,
GnuPG did not properly filter out terminal sequences when reporting the
original filename. An attacker could use this to specially craft a file
that would cause an application parsing GnuPG output to incorrectly
interpret the status of the cryptographic operation reported by GnuPG.
(CVE-2018-12020)

Lance Vick discovered that GnuPG did not enforce configurations where
key certification required an offline primary Certify key. An attacker
with access to a signing subkey could generate certifications that
appeared to be valid. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
(CVE-2018-9234)

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS gnupg 1.4.16-1ubuntu2.5
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS gnupg 1.4.20-1ubuntu3.2
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS gnupg2 2.2.4-1ubuntu1.1

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-9234
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-12020