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Message-ID: <a165ce13d67c1d9dd29e4a4f0681ed5dbfd592aa.camel@powerdns.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2022 15:15:40 +0200
From: Peter van Dijk <peter.van.dijk@...erdns.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: DO NOT OPEN PREVIOUS MAIL Re: 
 Denial of service in  GnuPG

On Mon, 2022-07-04 at 14:58 +0200, Jens-Wolfhard Schicke-Uffmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 02:15:45PM +0200, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> > > On 04/07/2022 07:31 Demi Marie Obenour <demi@...isiblethingslab.com> wrote:
> > > Signature (of /dev/null) that triggers this bug is attached, along with
> > > the corresponding public key.
> > This is insane. You can't send weaponised exploits that crash email
> > clients to public mailing lists. Please do not do this again.
> What email client would that be specifically? Because at least on
> my end, nothing nefarious happened. GPG was called on the outermost
> layer of signature and verified the email in entirety (and did so
> quickly).

GNOME Evolution (Debian's version 3.38.3-1) hangs (interruptibly, by
navigating to another message) when trying to open the message. It
hangs completely (eventually I used the Force Quit that GNOME offered
me) when trying to reply to it.

Kind regards,
-- 
Peter van Dijk
PowerDNS.COM BV - https://www.powerdns.com/

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