CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0978

7.5 HIGH Published 2004-01-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-01-05
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Format string vulnerability in gpgkeys_hkp (experimental HKP interface) for the GnuPG (gpg) client 1.2.3 and earlier, and 1.3.3 and earlier, allows remote attackers or a malicious keyserver to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code during key retrieval.

Affected configurations

• gnu privacy guard 1.2 • gnu privacy guard 1.2.1 • gnu privacy guard 1.2.2 • gnu privacy guard 1.2.3 • gnu privacy guard 1.3.3

References