CVE-2014-3564

critical

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."

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113267

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68990

http://www.osvdb.org/109699

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3005

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/266

http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gpgme.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2cbd76f7911fc215845e89b50d6af5ff4a83dd77

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2014-10-20

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical