Summary ======= Tavis Ormandy of the Gentoo security team identified a severe and exploitable bug in the processing of encrypted packets in GnuPG. [ Please do not send private mail in response to this message. The mailing list gnupg-devel is the best place to discuss this problem (please subscribe first so you don't need moderator approval [1]). ] Impact ====== Using malformed OpenPGP packets an attacker is able to modify and dereference a function pointer in GnuPG. This is a remotely exploitable bug and affects any use of GnuPG where an attacker can control the data processed by GnuPG. It is not necessary limited to encrypted data, also signed data may be affected. Affected versions: All versions of GnuPG < 1.4.6 All versions of GnuPG-2 < 2.0.2 All beta versions of GnuPG-2 (1.9.0 .. 1.9.95) Affected tools: gpg, gpgv, gpg2 and gpgv2. Affected platforms: All. gpg-agent, gpgsm as well as other tools are not affected. A workaround is not known.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 156947 ***