DSA-1141-1 gnupg2 -- integer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1141-1 gnupg2 -- integer overflow

Date Reported:

04 Aug 2006

Affected Packages:

gnupg2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 381204.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 19110.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-3746.

More information:

Evgeny Legerov discovered that overly large comments can crash gnupg, the GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement, which is also present in the development branch.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.15-6sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.20-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg2 package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge2_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge2_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge2_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge2_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge2_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge2_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge2_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge2_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge2_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge2_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge2_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge2_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge2_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge2_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge2_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg-agent_1.9.15-6sarge2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gnupg2_1.9.15-6sarge2_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg2/gpgsm_1.9.15-6sarge2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.