Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2014-379
Advisory Release Date: 2014-07-23 13:51 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-19 10:50 Pacific
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.
Affected Packages:
gnupg2
Issue Correction:
Run yum update gnupg2 to update your system.
i686:
gnupg2-2.0.24-1.25.amzn1.i686
gnupg2-debuginfo-2.0.24-1.25.amzn1.i686
gnupg2-smime-2.0.24-1.25.amzn1.i686
src:
gnupg2-2.0.24-1.25.amzn1.src
x86_64:
gnupg2-smime-2.0.24-1.25.amzn1.x86_64
gnupg2-debuginfo-2.0.24-1.25.amzn1.x86_64
gnupg2-2.0.24-1.25.amzn1.x86_64