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.

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        "availability": "No subscription required",
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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "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",
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  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "gnupg, gnupg2 vulnerability",
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  ]
}



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