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CVE-2014-4617

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 3.31%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2014-06-25 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.0. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

CVE
CVE-2014-4617
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
3.31%

Original NVD Description

The do_uncompress function in g10/compress.c in GnuPG 1.x before 1.4.17 and 2.x before 2.0.24 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via malformed compressed packets, as demonstrated by an a3 01 5b ff byte sequence.