5.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2015-1606

Published: 20/11/2019 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 384
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The keyring DB in GnuPG prior to 2.1.2 does not properly handle invalid packets, which allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (invalid read and use-after-free) via a crafted keyring file.

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Several security issues were fixed in GnuPG ...
Debian Bug report logs - #778577 CVE-2015-1606 CVE-2015-1607 -- multiple issues found in GnuPG Package: gnupg2; Maintainer for gnupg2 is Debian GnuPG Maintainers <pkg-gnupg-maint@listsaliothdebianorg>; Source for gnupg2 is src:gnupg2 (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorsemannet> D ...
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in GnuPG, the GNU Privacy Guard: CVE-2014-3591 The Elgamal decryption routine was susceptible to a side-channel attack discovered by researchers of Tel Aviv University Ciphertext blinding was enabled to counteract it Note that this may have a quite noticeable impact on Elgamal decryption p ...
It was <a href="blogfuzzing-projectorg/5-Multiple-issues-in-GnuPG-found-through-keyring-fuzzing-TFPA-0012015html">reported</a> that gnupg2 keyring DB code did not reject packets which don't belong into a keyring, which may lead to invalid read of sizeof (int) ...