GNU Privacy Guard vulnerability discovered

# on March 10th 2006 at 4:21 pm in Internet & Technology, Security & Privacy, Software

According to this post on the GPG mailing-list, GPG doesn’t detect the injection of unsigned data. That is rather a serious issue, so upgrading to the latest version is advised:

In the aftermath of the false positive signature verfication bug
(announced 2006-02-15) more thorough testing of the fix has been done
and another vulnerability has been detected.

This new problem affects the use of *gpg* for verification of
signatures which are _not_ detached signatures. The problem also
affects verification of signatures embedded in encrypted messages;
i.e. standard use of gpg for mails.

As usual, you can download the latest version from the GPG download page.

You have been warned…

GPG, Vulnerability, Security, Privacy

- Navaho Gunleg
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