CVE-2006-6235

Upstream information

CVE-2006-6235 at MITRE

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.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	10
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 225694 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SA:2006:075, published Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:00:00 +0000
• SUSE-SR:2006:028, published Fri, 08 Dec 2006 17:00:00 +0000

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 05:18:40 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:18:43 2023