VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-4617

medium
Published 2014-06-25 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.1 Affected —
12.3 Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 6 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.0.24-1
sid Fixed 2.0.24-1
forky Fixed 2.0.24-1
bullseye Fixed 2.0.24-1
bookworm Fixed 2.0.24-1
7.0 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnupggnupg2.0
gnupggnupg2.0.1
gnupggnupg2.0.3
gnupggnupg2.0.4
gnupggnupg2.0.5
gnupggnupg2.0.6
gnupggnupg2.0.7
gnupggnupg2.0.8
gnupggnupg2.0.10
gnupggnupg2.0.11
gnupggnupg2.0.12
gnupggnupg2.0.13
gnupggnupg2.0.14
gnupggnupg2.0.15
gnupggnupg2.0.16
gnupggnupg2.0.17
gnupggnupg2.0.18
gnupggnupg2.0.19
gnupggnupg2.0.20
gnupggnupg2.0.21
gnupggnupg2.0.22
gnupggnupg2.0.23
gnupggnupg{"endIncluding":"1.4.16"}
gnupggnupg1.0.0
gnupggnupg1.0.1
gnupggnupg1.0.2
gnupggnupg1.0.3
gnupggnupg1.0.4
gnupggnupg1.0.5
gnupggnupg1.0.6
gnupggnupg1.0.7
gnupggnupg1.2.0
gnupggnupg1.2.1
gnupggnupg1.2.2
gnupggnupg1.2.3
gnupggnupg1.2.4
gnupggnupg1.2.5
gnupggnupg1.2.6
gnupggnupg1.2.7
gnupggnupg1.3.0
gnupggnupg1.3.1
gnupggnupg1.3.2
gnupggnupg1.3.3
gnupggnupg1.3.4
gnupggnupg1.3.6
gnupggnupg1.3.90
gnupggnupg1.3.91
gnupggnupg1.3.92
gnupggnupg1.3.93
gnupggnupg1.4.0
gnupggnupg1.4.2
gnupggnupg1.4.3
gnupggnupg1.4.4
gnupggnupg1.4.5
gnupggnupg1.4.8
gnupggnupg1.4.10
gnupggnupg1.4.11
gnupggnupg1.4.12
gnupggnupg1.4.13
gnupggnupg1.4.14
gnupggnupg1.4.15

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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