CVE-2022-3219

gnupg: denial of service issue (resource consumption) using compressed packets

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

6.2

CVSS 3.1

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Published · September 15, 2022

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was found in GnuPG. GnuPG can spin on a relatively small input by crafting a public key with thousands of signatures attached and compressed down to a few kilobytes. This issue can potentially cause a denial of service.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 6.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write