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ubuntu-cve-2014-4617

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2014-06-26 00:00

Modified

2025-09-08 16:43

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.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4617	REPORT
	http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2…	REPORT
	https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2258-1	ADVISORY
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-4617	REPORT

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CVE-2014-4617 (GCVE-0-2014-4617)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-06-25 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 11:20

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

13 references

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Date Public

2014-06-23 00:00

Show details on NVD website

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usn-2258-1

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2014-06-26 17:36

Modified

2026-02-10 04:40

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

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2258-1	ADVISORY
	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4617	REPORT

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  "details": "Jean-Ren\u00e9 Reinhard, Olivier Levillain and Florian Maury discovered that\nGnuPG incorrectly handled certain OpenPGP messages. If a user or automated\nsystem were tricked into processing a specially-crafted message, GnuPG\ncould consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.\n",
  "id": "USN-2258-1",
  "modified": "2026-02-10T04:40:49Z",
  "published": "2014-06-26T17:36:35Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2258-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-4617"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "gnupg, gnupg2 vulnerability",
  "upstream": [
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2014-4617"
  ]
}

Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

Action not permitted

ubuntu-cve-2014-4617

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2014-4617 (GCVE-0-2014-4617)

usn-2258-1

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Tags

Sightings

Nomenclature