{"id":"ALSA-2020:4490","summary":"Moderate: gnupg2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update","details":"The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is a tool for encrypting data and creating digital signatures, compliant with OpenPGP and S/MIME standards.\n\nThe following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: gnupg2 (2.2.20). (BZ#1663944)\n\nSecurity Fix(es):\n\n* GnuPG: interaction between the sks-keyserver code and GnuPG allows for a Certificate Spamming Attack which leads to persistent DoS (CVE-2019-13050)\n\nFor more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.\n\nAdditional Changes:\n\nFor detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.","modified":"2026-02-04T04:37:36.427998Z","published":"2020-11-03T12:09:29Z","related":["CVE-2019-13050"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2020-4490.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2018-1000858"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2019-13050"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"gnupg2","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/gnupg2"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.2.20-2.el8"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2020:4490.json"}},{"package":{"name":"gnupg2-smime","ecosystem":"AlmaLinux:8","purl":"pkg:rpm/almalinux/gnupg2-smime"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.2.20-2.el8"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/AlmaLinux/osv-database/blob/master/advisories/almalinux8/ALSA-2020:4490.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}