Package : gnupg2 Vulnerability : integer overflow Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2006-3746 BugTraq ID : 19110 Debian Bug : 381204
Evgeny Legerov discovered that overly large comments can crash gnupg, the GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement, which is also present in the development branch.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.9.15-6sarge2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg2 package.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given at the end of this advisory:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------