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Details
Marcus Brinkmann discovered that during decryption or verification,
GnuPG did not properly filter out terminal sequences when reporting the
original filename. An attacker could use this to specially craft a file
that would cause an application parsing GnuPG output to incorrectly
interpret the status of the cryptographic operation reported by GnuPG.
(CVE-2018-12020)
Lance Vick discovered that GnuPG did not enforce configurations where
key certification required an offline primary Certify key. An attacker
with access to a signing subkey could generate certifications that
appeared to be valid. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
(CVE-2018-9234)
Marcus Brinkmann discovered that during decryption or verification,
GnuPG did not properly filter out terminal sequences when reporting the
original filename. An attacker could use this to specially craft a file
that would cause an application parsing GnuPG output to incorrectly
interpret the status of the cryptographic operation reported by GnuPG.
(CVE-2018-12020)
Lance Vick discovered that GnuPG did not enforce configurations where
key certification required an offline primary Certify key. An attacker
with access to a signing subkey could generate certifications that
appeared to be valid. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
(CVE-2018-9234)
Update instructions
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
Learn more about how to get the fixes.The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
| Ubuntu Release | Package Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 18.04 bionic | gnupg – 2.2.4-1ubuntu1.1 | ||
| gpg – 2.2.4-1ubuntu1.1 | |||
| 17.10 artful | gnupg – 2.1.15-1ubuntu8.1 | ||
| 16.04 xenial | gnupg – 1.4.20-1ubuntu3.2 | ||
| 14.04 trusty | gnupg – 1.4.16-1ubuntu2.5 | ||
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