CVE-2025-68973
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2025-12-28 | |
| Impact: | Important | What is this? |
Description
In GnuPG before 2.4.9, armor_filter in g10/armor.c has two increments of an index variable where one is intended, leading to an out-of-bounds write for crafted input. (For ExtendedLTS, 2.2.51 and later are fixed versions.)
See more information about CVE-2025-68973 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v3 metrics
| Base Score: | 7.8 |
| Vector String: | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| Version: | 3.1 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | High |
| Privileges Required: | None |
| User Interaction: | None |
| Scope: | Changed |
| Confidentiality Impact: | High |
| Integrity Impact: | High |
| Availability Impact: | None |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 10 (gnupg2) | ELSA-2026-0697 | 2026-01-15 |
| Oracle Linux version 8 (gnupg2) | ELSA-2026-0728 | 2026-01-15 |
| Oracle Linux version 9 (gnupg2) | ELSA-2026-0719 | 2026-01-15 |
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