The libksba library 0.9.12 and possibly other versions, as used by gpgsm in the newpg package on SUSE LINUX, allows attackers to cause a…

Description

The libksba library 0.9.12 and possibly other versions, as used by gpgsm in the newpg package on SUSE LINUX, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a malformed X.509 certificate in a signature.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.9% · top 20% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• 22473 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• SUSE-SR:2006:023 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• libksba-x509-dos(29621) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 22423 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• MDKSA-2006:183 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• http://www.novell.com/linux/download/updates/101_x86_64.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-365-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• 20565 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 22445 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 19:41 UTC.