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.)

INFO

Published Date :

2025-12-28T16:19:11.019Z

Last Modified :

2026-01-14T19:04:33.329Z

Source :

mitre
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-68973 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Gnupg
  • Gnupg
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-68973.

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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/12/29/11 cve-icon
https://github.com/gpg/gnupg/blob/ff30683418695f5d2cc9e6cf8c9418e09378ebe4/g10/armor.c#L1305-L1306 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/gpg/gnupg/commit/115d138ba599328005c5321c0ef9f00355838ca9 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/gpg/gnupg/compare/gnupg-2.2.50...gnupg-2.2.51 cve-icon cve-icon
https://gpg.fail/memcpy cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/01/msg00008.html cve-icon
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-to-sign-or-not-to-sign-practical-vulnerabilities-i cve-icon cve-icon
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403200 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68973 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68973 cve-icon
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/12/28/5 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
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