gnupg2 — security advisory
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.
- Products
- gnupg2
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.0.14-2
- CVEs
- CVE-2010-2547
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2010-2547
gnupg2
Fixed versions: 2.0.14-2
gnupg2
Fixed versions: 2.0.14-2
gnupg2
Fixed versions: 2.0.14-2
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T18:03:42.135129514Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 422155,
"published_at": "2010-08-05T18:17:57.243+00:00"
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