23790 : GnuPG gpg Unsigned Data Injection Detection Failure
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2006-03-09

Description

Gnu Privacy Guard contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to inject unsigned data into a signed message. The issue is triggered when unsigned PGP packets are prepended or appended to legitimately signed packet streams. It is possible that the flaw may allow injected data to appear signed resulting in a loss of integrity.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required
Attack Type: Cryptographic
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Unknown
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.4.2.2 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Free Software Foundation

GNU Privacy Guard

1.4.2.1

References

Security Tracker: 1015749
Secunia Advisory ID: 19173 19197 19203 19231 19232 19234 19244 19249 19287 19532
CVE ID: 2006-0049 (see also: NVD)
SCIP VulDB ID: 2077
Other Advisory URL: ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060401-01.U.asc
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-02/0755.html
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q1/000216.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-2006/msg00072.html
http://lists.suse.de/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Mar/0003.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200603-08.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200603-08.xml
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2006&m=slackware-security.476477
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0014/
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-264-1
Vendor URL: http://www.gnupg.org/
RedHat RHSA: RHSA-2006:0266

Tools & Filters

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Credit

Gentoo Linux Security Auditing Team - Gentoo Linux Security Auditing Team

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2006-03-14 | Disagree?

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