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[DSA1141] DSA-1141-1 gnupg2

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-1141-1 gnupg2

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Evgeny Legerov discovered that overly large comments can crash gnupg,
the GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement, which is also present
in the development branch.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.9.15-6sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.9.20-2.
We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg2 package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1141
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 19110

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2007 Michel Arboi

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