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gnupg: incorrect signature verification

Package(s):gnupg CVE #(s):CVE-2006-0049
Created:March 13, 2006 Updated:May 15, 2006
Description: Another vulnerability has been found in GnuPG. "Signature verification of non-detached signatures may give a positive result but when extracting the signed data, this data may be prepended or appended with extra data not covered by the signature. Thus it is possible for an attacker to take any signed message and inject extra arbitrary data."
Alerts:
Fedora-Legacy FLSA:185355 2006-05-12
Trustix TSLSA-2006-0014 2006-03-20
Red Hat RHSA-2006:0266-01 2006-03-15
Slackware SSA:2006-072-02 2006-03-14
Fedora FEDORA-2006-147 2006-03-13
Mandriva MDKSA-2006:055 2006-03-13
Ubuntu USN-264-1 2006-03-13
Debian DSA-993-2 2006-03-13
Gentoo 200603-08 2006-03-10
Debian DSA-993-1 2006-03-10

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