CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-6085

5.8 MEDIUM Published 2013-01-24 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-01-24
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

The read_block function in g10/import.c in GnuPG 1.4.x before 1.4.13 and 2.0.x through 2.0.19, when importing a key, allows remote attackers to corrupt the public keyring database or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted length field of an OpenPGP packet.

Affected configurations

• gnupg gnupg 1.4.0 • gnupg gnupg 1.4.2 • gnupg gnupg 1.4.3 • gnupg gnupg 1.4.4 • gnupg gnupg 1.4.5 • gnupg gnupg 1.4.8 • gnupg gnupg 1.4.10 • gnupg gnupg 1.4.11 • gnupg gnupg 1.4.12 • gnupg gnupg 2.0 • gnupg gnupg 2.0.1 • gnupg gnupg 2.0.3 • gnupg gnupg 2.0.4 • gnupg gnupg 2.0.5 • gnupg gnupg 2.0.6 • gnupg gnupg 2.0.7 • gnupg gnupg 2.0.8 • gnupg gnupg 2.0.10 • gnupg gnupg 2.0.11 • gnupg gnupg 2.0.12 • gnupg gnupg 2.0.13 • gnupg gnupg 2.0.14 • gnupg gnupg 2.0.15 • gnupg gnupg 2.0.16 • gnupg gnupg 2.0.17 • gnupg gnupg 2.0.18 • gnupg gnupg 2.0.19

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References