[Pkg-gnupg-maint] [SRM] Update of gnupg/gnupg2 to fix a memory leak

Luk Claes luk at debian.org
Sun May 24 17:37:13 UTC 2009


Daniel Leidert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In the past it had been reported several times, that importing a large
> keyring (for example the Debian keyring) might need a really long time
> and make gnupg allocate much memory (trying to reproduce the issue I
> observed a DoS). I recently reported the issue to Werner Koch and he
> found a memory leak and fixed the issue. It seems the patch applies to
> gnupg (probably to 1.4.6 in oldstable too) as well as gnupg2.
> 
> Should this be fixed in stable and olstable? Then I would prepare the
> packages for gnupg (CCed Eric for gnupg2).

Please upload for stable and oldstable.

Cheers

Luk



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