Vulnerability CVE-2014-3564
Published: 2014-10-20

Description:
Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the status_handler function in (1) engine-gpgsm.c and (2) engine-uiserver.c in GPGME before 1.5.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to "different line lengths in a specific order."

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

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
Ubuntu -> Ubuntu 
GNU -> Gpgme 
Debian -> Debian linux 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113267
http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gpgme.git;a=commit;h=2cbd76f7911fc215845e89b50d6af5ff4a83dd77
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68990
http://www.osvdb.org/109699
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3005
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/266
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