CWE-675

Multiple Operations on Resource in Single-Operation Context

The product performs the same operation on a resource two or more times, when the operation should only be applied once.

CVE-2025-68973 (GCVE-0-2025-68973)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-28 16:19
Modified
2025-12-29 19:03
CWE
  • CWE-675 - Multiple Operations on Resource in Single-Operation Context
Summary
In GnuPG through 2.4.8, 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.)
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GnuPG GnuPG Version: 0   
Version: 2.3.0    2.4.8
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