CVE-2014-3564

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-10-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

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."

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04, 12.04
Debian Linux: 6.0
GNU Gpgme: through 1.5.0

References

http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gpgme.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2cbd76f7911fc215845e89b50d6af5ff4a83dd77
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/266
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3005
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
http://www.osvdb.org/109699
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68990
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1113267
http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gpgme.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=2cbd76f7911fc215845e89b50d6af5ff4a83dd77
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/266
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3005
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html
http://www.osvdb.org/109699

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