DEBIAN-CVE-2014-4617

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-4617 PUBLISHED CVSS 8.699999809265137 HIGH

The do_uncompress function in g10/compress.c in GnuPG 1.x before 1.4.17 and 2.x before 2.0.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via malformed compressed packets, as demonstrated by an a3 01 5b ff byte sequence.

Risk Scores

CVSS v4.0

8.699999809265137

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:13	gnupg2	0, 0, 0
Debian:12	gnupg2	0, 0, 0
Debian:14	gnupg2	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	gnupg2	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Jun 25, 2014 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-4617 advisory

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