NVD
- Id
- 64730
- Name
- CVE-2006-6169
- 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.
- Reject
- CVSS Version
- 2
- CVSS Score
- 6.8
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS Base Score
- 6.8
- CVSS Impact Subscore
- 6.4
- CVSS Exploit Subscore
- 8.6
- CVSS Vector
- (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
- Pub Date
- 2016-12-20
- Published
- 2006-11-29
- Modified Date
- 2011-03-07
- Seq
- 2006-6169