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Description

In GnuPG before 2.5.17, a long signature packet length causes parse_signature to return success with sig->data[] set to a NULL value, leading to a denial of service (application crash).

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-01-27 | Published 2026-01-27 | Updated 2026-01-28 | Assigner mitre




LOW: 3.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Problem types

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Product status

Default status
unaffected

2.5.3 (semver) before 2.5.17
affected

References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/27/8

dev.gnupg.org/T8049

cve.org (CVE-2026-24883)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-24883)

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