Vulnerability CVE-2006-6169

Vulnerability CVE-2006-6169

Published: 2006-11-29 Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ask_outfile_name function in openfile.c for GnuPG (gpg) 1.4 and 2.0, when running interactively, might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via messages with "C-escape" expansions, which cause the make_printable_string function to return a longer string than expected while constructing a prompt.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

	Topic	Author	Date
Low	GnuPG 1.4 and 2.0 buffer overflow	Werner Koch (wk ...	30.11.2006

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score	Impact Subscore	Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10	6.4/10	8.6/10

Exploit range	Attack complexity	Authentication
Remote	Medium	No required
Confidentiality impact	Integrity impact	Availability impact
Partial	Partial	Partial

Affected software
Gnupg -> Gnupg

References:

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20061201-01-P.asc

http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q4/000241.html

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Dec/0004.html

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-03.xml

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1927

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017291

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-047.htm

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1231

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:221

http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.037.html

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0754.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/452829/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453253/100/100/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21306

http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0068/

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-389-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-393-2

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4736

https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue728

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30550

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-826

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11228

Vulnerability CVE-2006-6169

See advisories in our WLB2 database:

Low

GnuPG 1.4 and 2.0 buffer overflow

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

6.8/10

6.4/10

8.6/10

Remote

Medium

No required

Partial

Partial

Partial

Affected software

References: