CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-6169

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2006-11-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-11-29
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ask_outfile_name function in openfile.c for GnuPG (gpg) 1.4 and 2.0, when running interactively, might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via messages with "C-escape" expansions, which cause the make_printable_string function to return a longer string than expected while constructing a prompt.

Affected configurations

• gnupg gnupg 1.4 • gnupg gnupg 2.0

References