CVE-2006-5111

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-10-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The libksba library 0.9.12 and possibly other versions, as used by gpgsm in the newpg package on SUSE LINUX, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed X.509 certificate in a signature.

Affected products

Libksba Library: 0.9.12

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/22423
http://secunia.com/advisories/22445
http://secunia.com/advisories/22473
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:183
http://www.novell.com/linux/download/updates/101_x86_64.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_23_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20565
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-365-1
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29621
http://secunia.com/advisories/22423
http://secunia.com/advisories/22445
http://secunia.com/advisories/22473

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