https://vulnerability.circl.lu/rss/recent/all/10 Most recent entries from all 2026-09-30T16:17:01.736028+00:00 Vulnerability-Lookup info@circl.lu python-feedgen Contains only the most 10 recent entries. https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2025-6966 CVE-2025-6966 — Null-pointer dereference in python-apt TagSection.keys() 2026-09-30T16:17:02.588201+00:00

Affected: Canonical python-apt

NULL pointer dereference in TagSection.keys() in python-apt on APT-based Linux systems allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a crafted deb822 file with a malformed non-UTF-8 key.

 https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/usn-7916-1 USN-7916-1 — python-apt vulnerability 2026-09-30T16:17:02.588330+00:00

Affected: Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS: python-apt, Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS: python-apt, Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS: python-apt, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: python-apt, Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: python-apt, Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: python-apt, Ubuntu:25.10: python-apt

Julian Andres Klode discovered that python-apt incorrectly handled deb822 configuration files. An attacker could use this issue to cause python-apt to crash, resulting in a denial of service.