Technical Description

Gentoo has released updated packages to address two vulnerabilities identified in GnuPG. These flaws could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4881 - VUPEN/ADV-2006-4772

Affected Products

app-crypt/gnupg versions prior to 1.4.6

Solution

Upgrade the affected package :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "=app-crypt/gnupg-1.4*"

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4924
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200612-03.xml

ChangeLog

2006-12-11 : Initial release

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