Web上で変更点が見つからなかったのでダウンロードしてNEWSを見たところ以下のような記述がありました。
Noteworthy changes in version 1.4.2.1 (2006-02-14) -------------------------------------------------- * Security fix for a verification weakness in gpgv. Some input could lead to gpgv exiting with 0 even if the detached signature file did not carry any signature. This is not as fatal as it might seem because the suggestion as always been not to rely on th exit code but to parse the --status-fd messages. However it is likely that gpgv is used in that simplified way and thus we do this release. Same problem with "gpg --verify" but nobody should have used this for signature verification without checking the status codes anyway. Thanks to the taviso from Gentoo for reporting this problem.
QMAIL3でGnuPGを使って署名の検証をする場合には、--status-fdを使っているので大丈夫だと思われます。