CVE-2014-3564: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in the status_handler function in (1) engine-gpgsm.c and (2) engine-uiserver.c in GPGME before 1.5.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to "different line lengths in a specific order."

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 10.04 only; version 12.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 6.0 only
• GNU Gpgme: up to and including 1.5.0

Published 2014-10-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.