Vulnerability in GNU Privacy Guard
CVE-2006-6235
A "stack overwrite" vulnerability in GnuPG (gpg) 1.x before 1.4.6, 2.x before 2.0.2, and 1.9.0 through 1.9.95 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted OpenPGP packets that cause GnuPG to dereference a function pointer from deallocated stack memory.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.059 (93.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 93rd percentile — 93.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.059 · newest: 0.059 · change: +0.000
Affected products
- GNU Privacy Guard — versions 1.2.4, 1.2.5, 1.2.6
- Gpg4win — versions 1.0.7
- Rpath Linux — versions 1
- Slackware Linux — versions 11.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 4.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 3.0, 4.0
- Red Hat Fedora Core — versions core_5.0, core6
- Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation — versions 2.1
- Ubuntu Linux — versions 5.10, 6.06
References
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/23269 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/23303 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453723/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- secunia.com/advisories/23255 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-393-1 (vendor-advisory, Patch)
- secunia.com/advisories/23513 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/23284 (third-party-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-393-2 (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/23245 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)