CVE-2025-68973
HIGH7.0EPSS 0.02%gnupg2 - security update
Published: 12/28/2025Modified: 1/8/2026
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2025-68973
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.)
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/gnupgfrom 0, < 2.4.9-r0
- Debian/gnupg2from 0, < 2.2.27-2+deb11u3
- Debian/gnupg2from 0, < 2.2.27-2+deb11u3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |