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    1 vulnerability found for gpg-agent by gnupg

    GCVE-1-2026-0008

    Vulnerability from gna-1 – Published: 2026-01-28 13:48 – Updated: 2026-01-28 13:48
    VLAI
    Title
    gpg-agent stack buffer overflow in pkdecrypt using KEM
    Summary
    A crafted CMS (S/MIME) EnvelopedData message carrying an oversized wrapped session key (AES Key Wrap ciphertext) can cause a stack buffer overflow in gpg-agent during PKDECRYPT --kem=CMS handling. The root cause is an unbounded session key length derived from attacker-controlled ciphertext and used as the AES Key Wrap output length when decrypting into a fixed-size stack buffer. libgcrypt’s AES-KW unwrap copies attacker-controlled bytes into the caller-provided output buffer before performing integrity checks, so the stack overflow occurs even if later CMS or key-wrap integrity validation fails.
    CWE
    • CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
    Assigner
    References
    URL Tags
    https://dev.gnupg.org/T8044 issue-tracking
    Impacted products
    Vendor Product Version
    gnupg gpg-agent Affected: 2.5.13 , < 2.5.17
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    Credits
    OpenAI Security Research Werner Koch
    Relationships

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