Medium 5.0Published Jun 25, 2014

CVE-2014-4617The do_uncompress function in g10/compress.c in GnuPG 1.x before 1.4.17 and 2.x before 2.0.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via malformed compressed…

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The do_uncompress function in g10/compress.c in GnuPG 1.x before 1.4.17 and 2.x before 2.0.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via malformed compressed packets, as demonstrated by an a3 01 5b ff byte sequence.

CVSS: 5.0 MEDIUM (v2.0, NVD)AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness (CWE): CWE-20
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

gnupg gnupg gnupg:gnupg	2.0; 2.0.1; 2.0.3; 2.0.4; 2.0.5; 2.0.6; 2.0.7; 2.0.8; and 53 more ranges	NVD
debian debian_linux debian:debian_linux	7.0	NVD
opensuse opensuse opensuse:opensuse	12.3; 13.1	NVD

References

References

http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=014b2103fcb12f261135e3954f26e9e07b39e342
http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gnupg.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=11fdfcf82bd8d2b5bc38292a29876e10770f4b0a
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q2/000344.html	mailing-list, vendor-advisory
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2014q2/000345.html	mailing-list, vendor-advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-07/msg00010.html	third-party-advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/59213
http://secunia.com/advisories/59351
http://secunia.com/advisories/59534
http://secunia.com/advisories/59578
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2967
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