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CVE-2005-2023

CRITICAL

10.0

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.0710%

EPSS Percentile30.06th

PublishedJun 17, 2005

Last ModifiedApr 16, 2026

Vulnerability 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.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

💻

Suse

Suse Linux

= 9.3

References & Advisories

🔗 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

🔗 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

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