GnuPG can't handle some V3 secret keys

[Werner Koch]

On Fri, 4 May 2001, Florian Weimer wrote:

> 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

I know about this but there is no need to be worried about it
because about all modern OSes will SEGV on a NULL pointer
dereference without a way to exploit it.  It would be worse in a
library, though.

Anyway, I have put a note in the TODO that this has to be fixed.

Thanks for reminding me of that.

  Werner


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