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USN-3675-3: GnuPG vulnerability

18 June 2018

GnuPG could be made to incorrectly interpret the status of the cryptographic operation if it received specially crafted file.

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Releases

Packages

  • gnupg - GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement

Details

USN-3675-1 fixed a vulnerability in GnuPG. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

Marcus Brinkmann discovered that during decryption or verification,
GnuPG did not properly filter out terminal sequences when reporting the
original filename. An attacker could use this to specially craft a file
that would cause an application parsing GnuPG output to incorrectly
interpret the status of the cryptographic operation reported by GnuPG.
(CVE-2018-12020)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

Related notices

  • USN-3675-2: gpgv-udeb, gpgsm, gnupg2, scdaemon, gpgv2, gnupg-agent, dirmngr
  • USN-3675-1: gpgv-udeb, gnupg-curl, gpgv, gpg-agent, scdaemon, gnupg, gpgconf, gpg-wks-server, gnupg-l10n, gnupg-udeb, gnupg-utils, gpg, gpg-wks-client, gpgsm, gpgv-static, gpgv-win32, gnupg2, gpgv2, gnupg-agent, dirmngr
  • USN-3964-1: python-gnupg, python3-gnupg
  • USN-4839-1: python-gnupg, python3-gnupg