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RHSA-2020:4490 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: gnupg2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · November 4, 2020

Updated · January 14, 2026

Topic

An update for gnupg2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is a tool for encrypting data and creating digital signatures, compliant with OpenPGP and S/MIME standards.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: gnupg2 (2.2.20). (BZ#1663944)

Security Fix(es):

  • GnuPG: interaction between the sks-keyserver code and GnuPG allows for a Certificate Spamming Attack which leads to persistent DoS (CVE-2019-13050)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2020:4490 — Red Hat Security Advisory: gnupg2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update | PulseLinux