CVE-2012-6085: Gnupg

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The read_block function in g10/import.c in GnuPG 1.4.x before 1.4.13 and 2.0.x through 2.0.19, when importing a key, allows remote attackers to corrupt the public keyring database or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted length field of an OpenPGP packet.

Affected products

• Gnupg Gnupg: version 1.4.0 only; version 1.4.2 only; version 1.4.3 only; version 1.4.4 only; version 1.4.5 only; version 1.4.8 only; …

Published 2013-01-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.