A vulnerability has been identified in GnuPG, which may be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands or cause a denial of service. This flaw is due to an integer overflow error in the "parse_comment()" function that does not properly handle a malformed message packet, which could be exploited by attackers to crash a vulnerable application or compromise an affected system.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Evgeny Legerov
ChangeLog
2006-08-02 : Initial release
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