VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-4617

medium
Published 2014-06-25 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2.0.24-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2.0.24-1
debian debianforkyfixed2.0.24-1
debian debiansidfixed2.0.24-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2.0.24-1
suse suse12.3affected
suse suse13.1affected
debian debian7.0affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnupggnupg2.0
gnupggnupg2.0.1
gnupggnupg2.0.3
gnupggnupg2.0.4
gnupggnupg2.0.5
gnupggnupg2.0.6
gnupggnupg2.0.7
gnupggnupg2.0.8
gnupggnupg2.0.10
gnupggnupg2.0.11
gnupggnupg2.0.12
gnupggnupg2.0.13
gnupggnupg2.0.14
gnupggnupg2.0.15
gnupggnupg2.0.16
gnupggnupg2.0.17
gnupggnupg2.0.18
gnupggnupg2.0.19
gnupggnupg2.0.20
gnupggnupg2.0.21
gnupggnupg2.0.22
gnupggnupg2.0.23
gnupggnupg{"endIncluding":"1.4.16"}
gnupggnupg1.0.0
gnupggnupg1.0.1
gnupggnupg1.0.2
gnupggnupg1.0.3
gnupggnupg1.0.4
gnupggnupg1.0.5
gnupggnupg1.0.6
gnupggnupg1.0.7
gnupggnupg1.2.0
gnupggnupg1.2.1
gnupggnupg1.2.2
gnupggnupg1.2.3
gnupggnupg1.2.4
gnupggnupg1.2.5
gnupggnupg1.2.6
gnupggnupg1.2.7
gnupggnupg1.3.0
gnupggnupg1.3.1
gnupggnupg1.3.2
gnupggnupg1.3.3
gnupggnupg1.3.4
gnupggnupg1.3.6
gnupggnupg1.3.90
gnupggnupg1.3.91
gnupggnupg1.3.92
gnupggnupg1.3.93
gnupggnupg1.4.0
gnupggnupg1.4.2
gnupggnupg1.4.3
gnupggnupg1.4.4
gnupggnupg1.4.5
gnupggnupg1.4.8
gnupggnupg1.4.10
gnupggnupg1.4.11
gnupggnupg1.4.12
gnupggnupg1.4.13
gnupggnupg1.4.14
gnupggnupg1.4.15

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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