CVE-2014-4617

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-06-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0
GnuPG: through 1.4.16; 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6 (+54)
Opensuse: 12.3, 13.1

References

http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=014b2103fcb12f261135e3954f26e9e07b39e342
http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=11fdfcf82bd8d2b5bc38292a29876e10770f4b0a
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q2/000344.html
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q2/000345.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-07/msg00010.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59213
http://secunia.com/advisories/59351
http://secunia.com/advisories/59534
http://secunia.com/advisories/59578
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2967
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2968
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html

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