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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-8945

The proglottis Go wrapper before 0.1.1 for the GPGME library has a use-after-free, as demonstrated by use for container image pulls by Docker or CRI-O. This leads to a crash or potential code execution during GPG signature verification.

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CVE-2020-8945
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31 Oct 2026, 10:59 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2020-8945

core-osv · Original source

Published 12 Feb 2020, 18:15 UTC

The proglottis Go wrapper before 0.1.1 for the GPGME library has a use-after-free, as demonstrated by use for container image pulls by Docker or CRI-O. This leads to a crash or potential code execution during GPG signature verification.

osv:CVE-2020-8945
Complete source record
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    "summary": "The proglottis Go wrapper before 0.1.1 for the GPGME library has a use-after-free, as demonstrated by use for container image pulls by Docker or CRI-O. This leads to a crash or potential code execution during GPG signature verification.",
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        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0679",
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        "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0697",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1795838",
        "https://github.com/containers/image/commit/4c7a23f82ef09127b0ff28366d1cf31316dd6cc1",
        "https://github.com/proglottis/gpgme/compare/v0.1.0...v0.1.1",
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