CVE-2005-2023

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    CVE-2005-2023

    Published: 17 Jun 2005Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The send_pinentry_environment function in asshelp.c in gpg2 on SUSE Linux 9.3 does not properly handle certain options, which can prevent pinentry from being found and causes S/MIME signing to fail.

    References: http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_sr.html, http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_sr.html, http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gpa-dev/2005-June/002291.html, http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gpa-dev/2005-June/002294.html, https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gpa-dev/2005-May/002284.html

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High