CVE-2006-0455

CVE-2006-0455 concerns GnuPG’s gpgv tool (and gpg --verify) emitting a false success exit code for malformed or detached signatures. Affects GnuPG prior to 1.4.2.1; the issue can allow automated scripts to falsely assume verification succeeded. The risk is described as a local attack vector with ...

CVE-2006-0455: Undefined Security Weakness

gpgv in GnuPG before 1.4.2.1, when using unattended signature verification, returns a 0 exit code in certain cases even when the detached signature file does not carry a signature, which could cause programs that use gpgv to assume that the signature verification has succeeded. Note: this also...

gnupg -- false positive signature verification

Werner Koch reports: The Gentoo project identified a security related bug in GnuPG. When using any current version of GnuPG for unattended signature verification e.g. by scripts and mail programs, false positive signature verification of detached signatures may occur. This problem affects the too...