National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1530
Original release date:03/27/2008
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
GnuPG (gpg) 1.4.8 and 2.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted duplicate keys that are imported from key servers, which triggers "memory corruption around deduplication of user IDs."
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
- Official Statement from Red Hat (03/28/2008)
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Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the versions of gnupg packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 2.1, 3, 4 or 5.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214990
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue894
External Source: XF
Name: gnupg-keys-code-execution(41547)
External Source: BID
Name: 28487
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-1.html
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-1056
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29568
Type: Advisory
External Source: MLIST
Name: [Announce] 20080326 GnuPG 1.4.9 released