USN-2307-1: GPGME vulnerability
6 August 2014
GPGME could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it processed a specially crafted certificate.
Releases
Packages
- gpgme1.0 - GPGME - GnuPG Made Easy
Details
Tomáš Trnka discovered that GPGME incorrectly handled certain certificate
line lengths. An attacker could use this issue to cause applications using
GPGME to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 14.04
Ubuntu 12.04
Ubuntu 10.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.