KLA10175 DoS vulnerability in GnuPG

An unspecified vulnerability was found in GnuPG. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can cause denial of service. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via specially designed packets.

Original advisories

Related products

GnuPG-gpg

CVE list

CVE-2014-4617 critical

Solution

Update to latest version

Impacts

• DoS

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.

Affected Products

• GnuPG 1 versions 1.4.16 and earlierGnuPG 2 versions 2.0.23 and earlier