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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-4617 Detail

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=014b2103fcb12f261135e3954f26e9e07b39e342 CVE, MITRE
http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=11fdfcf82bd8d2b5bc38292a29876e10770f4b0a CVE, MITRE
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q2/000344.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Vendor Advisory 
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q2/000345.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Vendor Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-07/msg00010.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/59213 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/59351 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/59534 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/59578 CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2967 CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2968 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2258-1 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2014-4617
NVD Published Date:
06/25/2014
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
MITRE