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GnuPG Duplicated IDs Memory Corruption
Secunia Advisory: SA29568
Release Date: 2008-04-01
Popularity: 6,335 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:GnuPG / gpg 1.4.x
GnuPG / gpg 2.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in GnuPG, which can potentially be exploited to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when importing keys with duplicated IDs. This can be exploited to cause a memory corruption when importing keys via --refresh-keys or --import.

Successful exploitation potentially allows execution of arbitrary code, but has not been proven yet.

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.4.8 and 2.0.8. Prior versions may also be affected.

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