VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-6085

medium
Published 2013-01-24 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.8

Description

The read_block function in g10/import.c in GnuPG 1.4.x before 1.4.13 and 2.0.x through 2.0.19, when importing a key, allows remote attackers to corrupt the public keyring database or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted length field of an OpenPGP packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.0.19-2
sid Fixed 2.0.19-2
forky Fixed 2.0.19-2
bullseye Fixed 2.0.19-2
bookworm Fixed 2.0.19-2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnupggnupg1.4.0
gnupggnupg1.4.2
gnupggnupg1.4.3
gnupggnupg1.4.4
gnupggnupg1.4.5
gnupggnupg1.4.8
gnupggnupg1.4.10
gnupggnupg1.4.11
gnupggnupg1.4.12
gnupggnupg2.0
gnupggnupg2.0.1
gnupggnupg2.0.3
gnupggnupg2.0.4
gnupggnupg2.0.5
gnupggnupg2.0.6
gnupggnupg2.0.7
gnupggnupg2.0.8
gnupggnupg2.0.10
gnupggnupg2.0.11
gnupggnupg2.0.12
gnupggnupg2.0.13
gnupggnupg2.0.14
gnupggnupg2.0.15
gnupggnupg2.0.16
gnupggnupg2.0.17
gnupggnupg2.0.18
gnupggnupg2.0.19

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.