CVE-2008-7272

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-7272
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-11-08 00:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-02-10 21:16:00 UTC
DescriptionFireGPG before 0.6 handle user’s passphrase and decrypted cleartext insecurely by writing pre-encrypted cleartext and the user's passphrase to disk which may result in the compromise of secure communication or a users’s private key.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-312

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Getfiregpg Firegpg All All All All
Application Getfiregpg Firegpg All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
#514386 - iceweasel-firegpg: Vulnerability Affecting FireGPG Passphrase and Cleartext Recovery - Debian Bug report logs MISC bugs.debian.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
FireGPG Passphrase And Cleartext Vulnerability MISC vulners.com Third Party Advisory
CVE-2008-7272 MISC security-tracker.debian.org Third Party Advisory
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