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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2010-2547 Detail

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in kbx/keybox-blob.c in GPGSM in GnuPG 2.x through 2.0.16 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a certificate with a large number of Subject Alternate Names, which is not properly handled in a realloc operation when importing the certificate or verifying its signature.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Evaluator Impact

Per: http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2010q3/000302.html 'GnuPG 1.x is NOT affected because it does not come with the GPGSM tool.'

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/044935.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2010q3/000302.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00001.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/38877 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/40718 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/40841 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2010&m=slackware-security.462008 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2010-0076 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2076 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:143 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/41945 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024247 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1931 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1950 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1988 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2217 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3125 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-3229 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Broken Link 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-416 Use After Free cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2010-2547
NVD Published Date:
08/05/2010
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.