Pardus alert 2010-105 (gnupg)

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[Pardus-security] [PLSA 2010-105] Gnupg: Arbitrary Code Execution 
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Thu, 12 Aug 2010 23:05:42 +0300 (EEST)
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Pardus Linux Security Advisory 2010-105           security@pardus.org.tr
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      Date: 2010-08-11
  Severity: 3
      Type: Remote
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Summary
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A vulnerability has been fixed in GnuPG,  which  can  be  exploited  by 
malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system. 


Description
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CVE-2010-2547: 

Use-after-free vulnerability in kbx/keybox-blob.c in GPGSM in GnuPG 2.x 
through 2.0.16 allows remote attackers to cause  a  denial  of  service 
(crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a  certificate  with  a 
large number of Subject Alternate Names, which is not properly  handled 
in a realloc operation when importing the certificate or verifying  its 
signature. 


Affected packages:

  Pardus 2009:
    gnupg, all before 2.0.11-27-5


Resolution
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There are update(s) for gnupg. You can update them via Package  Manager 
or with a single command from console: 

    pisi up gnupg

References
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  * http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=13906
  * http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-...

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