OpenPKG Security Advisory
OpenPKG-SA-2006.001
Publisher Name: OpenPKG GmbH
Publisher Home: http://openpkg.com/
Advisory Id (public): OpenPKG-SA-2006.001
Advisory Type: OpenPKG Security Advisory (SA)
Advisory Directory: http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA
Advisory Document: http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA-2006.001
Advisory Published: 2008-08-07 22:02 UTC
Issue Id (internal): OpenPKG-SI-20060218.01
Issue First Created: 2006-02-18
Issue Last Modified: 2006-12-07
Issue Revision: 07
Subject Name: GnuPG
Subject Summary: GNU Privacy Guard
Subject Home: http://www.gnupg.org/
Subject Versions: * <= 1.4.2
Vulnerability Id: CVE-2006-0455
Vulnerability Scope: global (not OpenPKG specific)
Attack Feasibility: run-time
Attack Vector: local system
Attack Impact: identity fraud
Description:
According to a vendor security advisory [0] based on hints from the
Gentoo project, a false positive signature verification bug exists in
the GnuPG [1] security tool when unattended signature verification
(e.g. by scripts and mail programs) is performed via "gpgv" or "gpg
--verify".
References:
[0] http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q1/000211.html
[1] http://www.gnupg.org/
Primary Package Name: gnupg
Primary Package Home: http://openpkg.org/go/package/gnupg
Affected Distribution: Affected Branch: Affected Package:
OpenPKG Community 2.3-SOLID gnupg-1.4.0-2.3.0
OpenPKG Community 2.4-SOLID gnupg-1.4.1-2.4.0
OpenPKG Community 2.5-SOLID gnupg-1.4.2-2.5.0
OpenPKG Community CURRENT gnupg-1.4.2-20060111
Corrected Distribution: Corrected Branch: Corrected Package:
OpenPKG Community 2.3-SOLID gnupg-1.4.0-2.3.1
OpenPKG Community 2.4-SOLID gnupg-1.4.1-2.4.1
OpenPKG Community 2.5-SOLID gnupg-1.4.2-2.5.1
OpenPKG Community CURRENT gnupg-1.4.2.1-20060215