MGASA-2014-0276

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / MGASA-2014-0276

    MGASA-2014-0276

    Published: 27 Jun 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-4617

    Summary: Updated gnupg & gnupg2 packages fixes CVE-2014-4617

    Details: Updated gnupg and gnupg2 packages fix security vulnerability: GnuPG versions before 1.4.17 and 2.0.24 are vulnerable to a denial of service which can be caused by garbled compressed data packets which may put gpg into an infinite loop (CVE-2014-4617).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0276.html, http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q2/000344.html, http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q2/000345.html, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/24/14, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13590

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: gnupg

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/gnupg?arch=source&distro=mageia-3

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.4.14-1.3.mga3

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High