Secunia Advisory SA29568

GnuPG Duplicated IDs Memory Corruption
Secunia Advisory SA29568
Release Date 2008-04-01
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact DoS
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
GnuPG / gpg 1.4.x
GnuPG / gpg 2.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE-2008-1530 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description
A vulnerability has been reported in GnuPG, which can potentially be exploited to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when importing keys with duplicated IDs. This can be exploited to cause a memory corruption when importing keys via --refresh-keys or --import.

Successful exploitation potentially allows execution of arbitrary code, but has not been proven yet.

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.4.8 and 2.0.8. Prior versions may also be affected.

Solution
Update to version 1.4.9 or 2.0.9.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Andrea Barisani, oCERT

Original Advisory
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2008q1/000272.html
https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue894

oCERT:
http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-1.html

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