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HIGH

2: use-after-free when importing certificate with many alternate names

Published Aug 5, 2010

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in kbx/keybox-blob.c in GPGSM in GnuPG 2.x through 2.0.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a certificate with a large number of Subject Alternate Names, which is not properly handled in a realloc operation when importing the certificate or verifying its signature.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

References (22)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner redhat
Published Aug 5, 2010
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Jun 30, 2010
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Jul 23, 2010