CVE-2014-4617

Public on 2014-06-25
Modified on 2019-05-03
Description
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.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 gnupg 2014-07-23 ALAS-2014-378 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 gnupg2 2014-07-23 ALAS-2014-379 Fixed
Amazon Linux 2 - Core gnupg2 2019-05-02 ALAS2-2019-1203 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity Red Hat: CVE-2014-4617 Mitre: CVE-2014-4617