usn-5431-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2022-05-30 08:24
Modified
2026-04-27 14:11
Summary
gnupg2 vulnerability
Details

It was discovered that GnuPG was not properly processing keys with large amounts of signatures. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

References
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  "affected": [
    {
      "database_specific": {
        "cves_map": {
          "cves": [
            {
              "id": "CVE-2019-13050",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                  "score": "low",
                  "type": "Ubuntu"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS"
        }
      },
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "dirmngr",
            "binary_version": "2.2.4-1ubuntu1.5"
          },
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            "binary_name": "gnupg",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "gnupg-agent",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "gnupg-l10n",
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          },
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            "binary_name": "gnupg-utils",
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          },
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          },
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          },
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "gpg-wks-client",
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          },
          {
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "gpgconf",
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          },
          {
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          },
          {
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          },
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            "binary_name": "gpgv2",
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            "binary_name": "scdaemon",
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      },
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        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.2.4-1ubuntu1.5"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2.1.15-1ubuntu8",
        "2.2.4-1ubuntu1",
        "2.2.4-1ubuntu1.1",
        "2.2.4-1ubuntu1.2",
        "2.2.4-1ubuntu1.3",
        "2.2.4-1ubuntu1.4"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "It was discovered that GnuPG was not properly processing keys\nwith large amounts of signatures. An attacker could possibly\nuse this issue to cause a denial of service.\n",
  "id": "USN-5431-1",
  "modified": "2026-04-27T14:11:28Z",
  "published": "2022-05-30T08:24:09Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5431-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-13050"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "summary": "gnupg2 vulnerability",
  "upstream": [
    "UBUNTU-CVE-2019-13050"
  ]
}



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