CVE-2026-24883 (GCVE-0-2026-24883)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-27 18:43 – Updated: 2026-01-28 15:52
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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).
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-01-27 20:02 UTC
CWE
- CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
2 references
Impacted products
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