CVE-2014-4617
N/A
Published: June 25, 2014 at 10:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:10 AM UTC
3 products affected across 3 vendorsDebian LinuxopenSUSEGnuPG
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
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
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Debian Linux· Debiandrupal
95%v ≤ 1.4.161.0.01.0.11.0.21.0.31.0.41.0.51.0.61.0.71.2.01.2.11.2.21.2.31.2.41.2.51.2.61.2.71.3.01.3.11.3.21.3.31.3.41.3.61.3.901.3.911.3.921.3.931.4.01.4.101.4.111.4.121.4.131.4.141.4.151.4.21.4.31.4.41.4.51.4.82.02.0.12.0.102.0.112.0.122.0.132.0.142.0.152.0.162.0.172.0.182.0.192.0.202.0.212.0.222.0.232.0.32.0.42.0.52.0.62.0.72.0.8
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (13)
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q2/000344.htmlMailing Listx_refsource_MLISTVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q2/000345.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSEThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-07/msg00010.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20
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