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CVE-2025-68973 Detail

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.)


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/12/29/11 CVE Mailing List  Patch 
https://github.com/gpg/gnupg/blob/ff30683418695f5d2cc9e6cf8c9418e09378ebe4/g10/armor.c#L1305-L1306 MITRE Product 
https://github.com/gpg/gnupg/commit/115d138ba599328005c5321c0ef9f00355838ca9 MITRE Patch 
https://github.com/gpg/gnupg/compare/gnupg-2.2.50...gnupg-2.2.51 MITRE Patch 
https://gpg.fail/memcpy CISA-ADP, MITRE Broken Link 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/01/msg00008.html CVE
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-to-sign-or-not-to-sign-practical-vulnerabilities-i MITRE Issue Tracking 
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403200 MITRE Issue Tracking 
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/12/28/5 MITRE Mailing List 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-675 Multiple Operations on Resource in Single-Operation Context MITRE  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-68973
NVD Published Date:
12/28/2025
NVD Last Modified:
01/14/2026
Source:
MITRE