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SSA-2006-178-02 gnupg DoS

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
SSA-2006-178-02 gnupg DoS

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

New GnuPG packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2,
and -current to fix security issues which could permit a possible hacker to
crash gnupg and possibly overwrite memory which could lead to an integer
overflow.

More details about this issue may be found in the Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3082

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2006 Michel Arboi

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