CVE-2014-4617

Summary

CVECVE-2014-4617
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-06-25 11:19:22 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-20 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 7.0 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.0.0 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.0.1 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.0.2 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.0.3 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.0.4 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.0.5 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.0.6 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.0.7 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.2.0 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.2.1 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.2.2 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.2.3 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.2.4 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.2.5 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.2.6 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.2.7 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.3.0 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.3.1 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.3.2 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.3.3 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.3.4 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.3.6 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.3.90 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.3.91 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.3.92 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.3.93 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.4.0 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.4.10 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.4.11 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.4.12 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.4.13 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.4.14 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.4.15 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.4.2 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.4.3 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.4.4 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.4.5 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 1.4.8 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0.1 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0.10 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0.11 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0.12 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0.13 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0.14 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0.15 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0.16 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0.17 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0.18 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0.19 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0.20 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0.21 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0.22 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0.23 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0.3 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0.4 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0.5 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0.6 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0.7 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg 2.0.8 All All All
Application Gnupg Gnupg All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 12.3 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-2258-1: GnuPG vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2968-1 gnupg2 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Oracle Solaris Third Party Bulletin - April 2015 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com
Security Advisory SA59534 - Debian update for gnupg - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Security Advisory SA59351 - SUSE update for gpg2 - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Security Advisory SA59213 - Debian update for gnupg2 - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Security Advisory SA59578 - Ubuntu update for gnupg and gnupg2 - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
openSUSE-SU-2014:0866-1: moderate: gpg2: Fixed possible DoS af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Third Party Advisory
git.gnupg.org Git - gnupg.git/commit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.gnupg.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2967-1 gnupg af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
[Announce] [security fix] GnuPG 2.0.24 released af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.gnupg.org Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
[Announce] [security fix] GnuPG 1.4.17 released af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.gnupg.org Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
git.gnupg.org Git - gnupg.git/commit af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 git.gnupg.org
git.gnupg.org Git - gnupg.git/commit MITRE git.gnupg.org
git.gnupg.org Git - gnupg.git/commit MITRE git.gnupg.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 671115 EulerOS Security Update for gnupg2 (EulerOS-SA-2019-2393)
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