ALAS2-2019-1203


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2019-1203
Advisory Release Date: 2019-05-02 18:47 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2019-05-03 00:13 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

The do_uncompress function in g10/compress.c 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.(CVE-2014-4617)


Affected Packages:

gnupg2


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update gnupg2 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    gnupg2-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    gnupg2-smime-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    gnupg2-debuginfo-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.3.aarch64

i686:
    gnupg2-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.3.i686
    gnupg2-smime-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.3.i686
    gnupg2-debuginfo-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.3.i686

src:
    gnupg2-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.3.src

x86_64:
    gnupg2-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    gnupg2-smime-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    gnupg2-debuginfo-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.3.x86_64