CVE-2014-3564

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    CVE-2014-3564

    Published: 20 Oct 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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."

    References: http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3005, 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.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html, http://www.osvdb.org/109699, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68990

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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