VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-9087

high
Published 2014-12-01 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Integer underflow in the ksba_oid_to_str function in Libksba before 1.3.2, as used in GnuPG, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted OID in a (1) S/MIME message or (2) ECC based OpenPGP data, which triggers a buffer overflow.

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
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
14.10 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
12.04 Affected —
debian Debian Mixed 7 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0
sid Fixed 0
forky Fixed 0
bullseye Fixed 0
bookworm Fixed 0
8.0 Affected —
7.0 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnupglibksba{"endExcluding":"1.3.2"}1.3.2
gnupggnupg2.1.0

References

CWEs

CWE-191

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

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