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CVE-2014-4617

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-20 Input Validation
Publication date:
25/06/2014
Last modified:
12/04/2025

Description

The do_uncompress function in g10/compress.c in GnuPG 1.x before 1.4.17 and 2.x before 2.0.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via malformed compressed packets, as demonstrated by an a3 01 5b ff byte sequence.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.0.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.0.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.0.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.0.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.0.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.0.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnupg:gnupg:2.0.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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