CVE-2006-6169 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-6169
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Description: Heap-based buffer overflow in the ask_outfile_name function in openfile.c for GnuPG (gpg) 1.4 and 2.0, when running interactively, might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via messages with "C-escape" expansions, which cause the make_printable_string function to return a longer string than expected while constructing a prompt.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/30550 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-393-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-389-1 TRUSTIX http://www.trustix.org/errata/2006/0068/ SUSE http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Dec/0004.html ST 1017291 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1927 SGI SAID Secunia Advisory: SA23284 Secunia Advisory: SA23303 Secunia Advisory: SA23299 Secunia Advisory: SA23269 Secunia Advisory: SA23250 Secunia Advisory: SA23161 Secunia Advisory: SA23146 Secunia Advisory: SA23110 Secunia Advisory: SA23171 Secunia Advisory: SA23094 Secunia Advisory: SA23513 Secunia Advisory: SA24047 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0754.html OPENPKG http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2006.037.html MLIST http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2006q4/000241.html MISC MANDRIVA http://frontal2.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:221 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-03.xml DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1231 CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-047.htm BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/453253/100/100/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/452829/100/0/threaded BID 21306

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