USN-389-1 and USN-393-1 fixed vulnerabilities in gnupg. This update provides the corresponding updates for gnupg2.
Original advisory details:
7 December 2006
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
USN-389-1 and USN-393-1 fixed vulnerabilities in gnupg. This update provides the corresponding updates for gnupg2.
Original advisory details:
A buffer overflow was discovered in GnuPG. By tricking a user into
running gpg interactively on a specially crafted message, an attacker
could execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges. This
vulnerability is not exposed when running gpg in batch mode.
(CVE-2006-6169)
Tavis Ormandy discovered that gnupg was incorrectly using the stack.
If a user were tricked into processing a specially crafted message, an
attacker could execute arbitrary code with the user’s privileges.
(CVE-2006-6235)
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
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