Denial of Service Vulnerability in GnuPG's do_uncompress Function

Denial of Service Vulnerability in GnuPG's do_uncompress Function

CVE-2014-4617 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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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