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Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 2601-1] gnupg, gnupg2 security update



Hello there,

On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 07:04:57PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Debian Security Advisory DSA-2601-1                   security@debian.org
> http://www.debian.org/security/                           Thijs Kinkhorst
> January 06, 2013                       http://www.debian.org/security/faq
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Package        : gnupg, gnupg2
> Vulnerability  : missing input sanitation
> Problem type   : local (remote)
> Debian-specific: no
> CVE ID         : CVE-2012-6085
> Debian Bug     : 697108 697251
> 
> KB Sriram discovered that GnuPG, the GNU Privacy Guard did not
> sufficiently sanitise public keys on import, which could lead to
> memory and keyring corruption.
> 
> The problem affects both version 1, in the 'gnupg' package, and
> version two, in the 'gnupg2' package.
> 
> For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
> version 1.4.10-4+squeeze1 of gnupg and version 2.0.19-2+squeeze1 of
> gnupg2.o

ITIYM "version 2.0.14-2+squeeze1 of gnupg2". Fixed accordingly in CVS,
the changes will be publicly visible soon.

Cheers,
Flo

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