CVE-2022-3219

Publication date 23 February 2023

Last updated 31 March 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

GnuPG can be made to spin on a relatively small input by (for example) crafting a public key with thousands of signatures attached, compressed down to just a few KB.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
gnupg	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support
gnupg2	25.10 questing	Ignored
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was ignored
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was ignored
	24.04 LTS noble	Ignored
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was ignored [2022-09-28]
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was ignored [2022-09-28]
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was ignored [2022-09-28]
	22.04 LTS jammy	Ignored
	20.04 LTS focal	Ignored end of standard support, was ignored
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored end of standard support, was ignored
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Notes

mdeslaur

per the upstream gnupg bug, GnuPG developers will not be fixing this issue. We will not be fixing this issue in Ubuntu either. Marking as ignored.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
gnupg2	Other: https://dev.gnupg.org/D556

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	3.3 · Low
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L