CVE-2014-3564

Publication date 1 August 2014

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Description

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."

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
gpgme1.0	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.4.3-0.1ubuntu5.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 1.2.0-1.4ubuntu2.1
	10.04 LTS lucid	Fixed 1.2.0-1.2ubuntu1.1

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
gpgme1.0	Upstream: http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=gpgme.git;a=commit;h=2cbd76f7911fc215845e89b50d6af5ff4a83dd77

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2307-1
GPGME vulnerability
6 August 2014

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3564