GnuPG can't handle some V3 secret keys
Florian Weimer
Florian.Weimer at RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
Fri May 4 18:08:02 CEST 2001
Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer at RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE> writes:
> (There's an additional bug lurking in the secret key parser routine,
> but I haven't nailed down that one yet.)
Here are the details:
The code in the g10 directory doesn't check the return value of
mpi_read(), which is a null pointer if an error has occured. In some
situations, the null pointer dereferenced, resulting in a segmentation
fault.
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