RLSA-2020:4490

Source
https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2020:4490
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2020:4490.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RLSA-2020:4490
Related
Published
2020-11-03T12:09:29Z
Modified
2023-02-02T14:09:06.584165Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Moderate: gnupg2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Details

The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is a tool for encrypting data and creating digital signatures, compliant with OpenPGP and S/MIME standards.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: gnupg2 (2.2.20). (BZ#1663944)

Security Fix(es):

  • GnuPG: interaction between the sks-keyserver code and GnuPG allows for a Certificate Spamming Attack which leads to persistent DoS (CVE-2019-13050)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Rocky Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

References
Credits
    • Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
    • Red Hat

Affected packages

Rocky Linux:8 / gnupg2

Package

Name
gnupg2
Purl
pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/gnupg2?distro=rocky-linux-8-4-legacy&epoch=0

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0:2.2.20-2.el8