A vulnerability has been identified in GnuPG, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise an affected system. This issue is caused by a memory corruption error when importing keys with duplicated user IDs, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into importing specially crafted keys [...]
Affected Products
GnuPG version 1.4.8
GnuPG version 2.0.8
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Andrea Barisani of (oCERT).
ChangeLog
2008-04-01 : Initial release
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