CVE-2014-4617 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=commit;h=014b2103fcb12f261135e3954f26e9e07b39e342 http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=commit;h=11fdfcf82bd8d2b5bc38292a29876e10770f4b0a http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q2/000344.html http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q2/000345.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-07/msg00010.html http://secunia.com/advisories/59213 http://secunia.com/advisories/59351 http://secunia.com/advisories/59534 http://secunia.com/advisories/59578 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2967 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2968 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2258-1