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HIGH

security flaw

Published Dec 7, 2006

Description

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.

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (39)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Dec 7, 2006
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Dec 2, 2006
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Important
Public date Dec 6, 2006