### [CVE-2014-4617](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-4617)
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### Description

The do_uncompress function in g10/compress.c in GnuPG 1.x before 1.4.17 and 2.x before 2.0.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via malformed compressed packets, as demonstrated by an a3 01 5b ff byte sequence.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html

#### Github
- https://github.com/tinyzimmer/amzn-alas-query-api