[Secure-testing-team] Bug#752498: gnupg2: DoS due to garbled compressed data packets

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: gnupg2
Version: 2.0.14-2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream patch fixed-upstream

Hi

For reference it the BTS, gnupg 1.4.17 was released containing a fix for a
denial of service due to garbled compressed data packets[1], which also affects
the 2.x branch[2].

 [1] http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q2/000344.html
 [2] http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git;a=commitdiff;h=014b2103fcb12f261135e3954f26e9e07b39e342

Regards,
Salvatore