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[OpenPKG-SA-2006.001] OpenPKG Security Advisory (gnupg)

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OpenPKG Security Advisory                            The OpenPKG Project
http://www.openpkg.org/security.html              http://www.openpkg.org
openpkg-security@xxxxxxxxxxx                         openpkg@xxxxxxxxxxx
OpenPKG-SA-2006.001                                          18-Feb-2006
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Package:             gnupg
Vulnerability:       false positive signature verification
OpenPKG Specific:    no

Affected Releases:   Affected Packages:      Corrected Packages:
OpenPKG CURRENT      <= gnupg-1.4.2-20060111 >= gnupg-1.4.2.1-20060215
OpenPKG 2.5          <= gnupg-1.4.2-2.5.0    >= gnupg-1.4.2-2.5.1
OpenPKG 2.4          <= gnupg-1.4.1-2.4.0    >= gnupg-1.4.1-2.4.1
OpenPKG 2.3          <= gnupg-1.4.0-2.3.0    >= gnupg-1.4.0-2.3.1

Description:
  According to a vendor security advisory [0] based on hints from the
  Gentoo project, a false positive signature verification bug exists in
  the GnuPG [1] security tool when unattended signature verification
  (e.g. by scripts and mail programs) is performed via "gpgv" or "gpg
  --verify". The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) project
  assigned the id CVE-2006-0455 [2] to the problem.
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References:
  [0] http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q1/000211.html 
  [1] http://www.gnupg.org/
  [2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0455
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