CVE-2003-0978

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-01-05 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Format string vulnerability in gpgkeys_hkp (experimental HKP interface) for the GnuPG (gpg) client 1.2.3 and earlier, and 1.3.3 and earlier, allows remote attackers or a malicious keyserver to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code during key retrieval.

Affected products

GNU Privacy Guard: 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.2-rc1, 1.2.3, 1.3.3

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107047470625214&w=2
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_048_gpg.html
http://www.s-quadra.com/advisories/Adv-20031203.txt
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/13892
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107047470625214&w=2
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_048_gpg.html
http://www.s-quadra.com/advisories/Adv-20031203.txt
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/13892

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