Bug#941186: gradle: CVE-2019-16370

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: gradle
Version: 4.4.1-8
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
Forwarded: https://github.com/gradle/gradle/pull/10543
Control: found -1 4.4.1-6

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for gradle.

CVE-2019-16370[0]:
| The PGP signing plugin in Gradle before 6.0 relies on the SHA-1
| algorithm, which might allow an attacker to replace an artifact with a
| different one that has the same SHA-1 message digest, a related issue
| to CVE-2005-4900.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-16370
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-16370
[1] https://github.com/gradle/gradle/pull/10543
[2] https://github.com/gradle/gradle/commit/425b2b7a50cd84106a77cdf1ab665c89c6b14d2f

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore