USN-2258-1

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    USN-2258-1

    Published: 26 Jun 2014Last Modified: 10 Feb 2026

    Summary: gnupg, gnupg2 vulnerability

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2258-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/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