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gnupg -- 2 more possible memory allocation attacks

Affected packages
		gnupg	<	1.4.5

Details

VuXML ID	ed529baa-21c6-11db-b625-02e081235dab
Discovery	2006-08-01
Entry	2006-08-02

Author reports:

Fixed 2 more possible memory allocation attacks. They are similar to the problem we fixed with 1.4.4. This bug can easily be exploted for a DoS; remote code execution is not entirely impossible.

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References

URL	http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q3/000229.html