UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4617

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4617

    Published: 26 Jun 2014Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-4617
    Aliases:
    USN-2258-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4617, http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q2/000344.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2258-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-4617

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: gnupg

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.4.16-1ubuntu2.1

    Affected versions

    1.4.14-1ubuntu2
    1.4.15-1.1ubuntu1
    1.4.15-1.1ubuntu2
    1.4.15-2ubuntu1
    1.4.16-1ubuntu1
    1.4.16-1ubuntu2

    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