Resource Management Errors The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package pgpdump  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1704-PGPDUMP-666193
  • published26 May 2016
  • disclosed26 May 2016

Introduced: 26 May 2016

CVE-2016-4021  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pgpdump package and not the pgpdump package as distributed by Ubuntu.

The read_binary function in buffer.c in pgpdump before 0.30 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via crafted input, as demonstrated by the \xa3\x03 string.