CVE-2005-2023 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The send_pinentry_environment function in asshelp.c in gpg2 on SUSE Linux 9.3 does not properly handle certain options, which can prevent pinentry from being found and causes S/MIME signing to fail.

Published: 2005-06-21

Score: 10.0 Critical

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:suse:suse_linux:9.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2005-2025	The send_pinentry_environment function in asshelp.c in gpg2 on SUSE Linux 9.3 does not properly handle certain options, which can prevent pinentry from being found and causes S/MIME signing to fail.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00471.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gpa-dev/2005-June/002291.html
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gpa-dev/2005-June/002294.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_16_sr.html
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gpa-dev/2005-May/002284.html

History

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Subscriptions

Suse Suse Linux

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-06-21T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T22:15:36.658Z

Reserved: 2005-06-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-2023

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-06-17T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-2023

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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