Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1231-1 gnupg -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:
09 Dec 2006
Affected Packages:
gnupg
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 401894, Bug 401898, Bug 401914.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-6169, CVE-2006-6235.
More information:

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the GNU privacy guard, a free PGP replacement, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:

  • CVE-2006-6169

    Werner Koch discovered that a buffer overflow in a sanitising function may lead to execution of arbitrary code when running gnupg interactively.

  • CVE-2006-6235

    Tavis Ormandy discovered that parsing a carefully crafted OpenPGP packet may lead to the execution of arbitrary code, as a function pointer of an internal structure may be controlled through the decryption routines.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.1-1.sarge6.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.6-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_arm.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnupg/gnupg_1.4.1-1.sarge6_sparc.deb

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