CVE-2013-4402

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-10-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The compressed packet parser in GnuPG 1.4.x before 1.4.15 and 2.0.x before 2.0.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via a crafted OpenPGP message.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04, 12.10, 13.04
GnuPG: 1.4.0, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.4.4, 1.4.5, 1.4.8 (+19)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725433
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2013q4/000333.html
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2013q4/000334.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00020.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00025.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1459.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2773
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2774
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1987-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015685
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725433
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2013q4/000333.html

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