
Release MacGPG 2.0.22
Reported by steve | October 5th, 2013 @ 11:55 AM
details from the gnupg mailing:
What's New in 2.0.22
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Fixed possible infinite recursion in the compressed packet parser. [CVE-2013-4402]
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Improved support for some card readers.
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Prepared building with the forthcoming Libgcrypt 1.6.
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Protect against rogue keyservers sending secret keys.
Impact of the security problem
Special crafted input data may be used to cause a denial of
service
against GPG (GnuPG's OpenPGP part) and some other OpenPGP
implementations. All systems using GPG to process incoming data
are
affected.
Taylor R. Campbell invented a neat trick to generate OpenPGP
packages
to force GPG to recursively parse certain parts of OpenPGP messages
ad
infinitum. As a workaround a tight "ulimit -v" setting may be used
to
mitigate the problem. Sample input data to trigger this problem
has
not yet been seen in the wild. Details of the attack will
eventually
be published by its inventor.
A fixed release of the GnuPG 1.4 series has also been released.
An updated vesion of gpg4win will be released next week.
Getting the Software
Please follow the instructions found at http://www.gnupg.org/download/
or read on:
GnuPG 2.0.22 may be downloaded from one of the GnuPG mirror
sites or
direct from ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/
. The list of mirrors
can be found at http://www.gnupg.org/mirrors.html
. Note, that GnuPG
is not available at ftp.gnu.org.
On the FTP server and its mirrors you should find the following
files
in the gnupg/ directory:
gnupg-2.0.22.tar.bz2 (4200k) gnupg-2.0.22.tar.bz2.sig
GnuPG source compressed using BZIP2 and OpenPGP signature.
gnupg-2.0.20-2.0.22.diff.bz2 (39k)
A patch file to upgrade a 2.0.20 GnuPG source tree. This patch
does not include updates of the language files.
Comments and changes to this ticket
-
Luke Le January 25th, 2014 @ 07:15 PM
- State changed from new to fixed
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