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.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
Assigner
References
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Credits
OpenAI Security Research
Werner Koch
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