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CVE-2008-1530

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2008-04-26 gnupg -- memory corruption vulnerability

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2008-1530
Phase Assigned(20080327)

Description

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."

References

Source Reference
MLIST [Announce] 20080326 GnuPG 1.4.9 released
MISC http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2008-1.html
CONFIRM https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue894
CONFIRM https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214990
BID 28487
VUPEN ADV-2008-1056
SECUNIA 29568
XF gnupg-keys-code-execution(41547)