CVE-2025-68973 (GCVE-0-2025-68973)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-28 16:19 – Updated: 2026-01-14 19:04
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Summary
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.)
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-675 - Multiple Operations on Resource in Single-Operation Context
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GnuPG GnuPG Affected: 0 , < 2.2.51 (semver)
Affected: 2.3.0 , < 2.4.9 (semver)
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