Vulnerability CVE-2013-4402
Published: 2013-10-28   Modified: 2013-10-29

Description:
The compressed packet parser in GnuPG 1.4.x before 1.4.15 and 2.0.x before 2.0.22 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via a crafted OpenPGP message.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
GnuPG infinite recursion in the compressed packet parser
Alexander
10.10.2013

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Gnupg -> Gnupg 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1015685
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1987-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2774
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2773
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00025.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-10/msg00020.html
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2013q4/000334.html
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2013q4/000333.html
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725433
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