patches/packages/gnupg-1.4.2.2-i486-1.tgz
There have been two security related issues reported recently with GnuPG.
From the GnuPG 1.4.2.1 and 1.4.2.2 NEWS files:
Noteworthy changes in version 1.4.2.2 (2006-03-08)
* Files containing several signed messages are not allowed any
longer as there is no clean way to report the status of such
files back to the caller. To partly revert to the old behaviour
the new option –allow-multisig-verification may be used.
Noteworthy changes in version 1.4.2.1 (2006-02-14)
* Security fix for a verification weakness in gpgv. Some input
could lead to gpgv exiting with 0 even if the detached signature
file did not carry any signature. This is not as fatal as it
might seem because the suggestion as always been not to rely on
th exit code but to parse the –status-fd messages. However it
is likely that gpgv is used in that simplified way and thus we
do this release. Same problem with “gpg –verify” but nobody
should have used this for signature verification without
checking the status codes anyway. Thanks to the taviso from
Gentoo for reporting this problem.
(* Security fix *)