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archlinuxArch LinuxASA-201412-1
HistoryDec 01, 2014 - 12:00 a.m.

gnupg: denial of service

2014-12-0100:00:00
Arch Linux
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7.5 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.017 Low

EPSS

Percentile

86.2%

By using special crafted S/MIME messages or ECC based OpenPGP data, it
is possible to create a buffer overflow. The bug is not easy to exploit
because there only 80 possible values which can be used to overwrite
memory. However, a denial of service is possible and someone may come
up with other clever attacks. Thus this should be fix.

Background: Hanno Böck found an invalid memory access in the
2.1 branch of GnuPG by conveying a malformed OID as part of an ECC key.
It turned out that this bug has also been in libksba ever since and
affects at least gpgsm and dirmngr. The code to convert an OID to its
string representation has an obvious error of not considering an invalid
encoding for arc-2. A first byte of 0x80 can be used to make a value of
less then 80 and we then subtract 80 from it as required by the OID
encoding rules. Due to the use of an unsigned integer this results in a
pretty long value which won’t fit anymore into the allocated buffer.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
anyanyanygnupg< 2.1.0-6UNKNOWN

7.5 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

0.017 Low

EPSS

Percentile

86.2%