VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2014-4617
CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability3.31%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2014-06-25
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
The do_uncompress function in g10/compress.c in GnuPG 1.x before 1.4.17 and 2.x before 2.0.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via malformed compressed packets, as demonstrated by an a3 01 5b ff byte sequence.
Weakness classification
- CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
Primary references
- cve@mitre.org
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- cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org