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ghsa-pj23-86ww-f72p

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-12-28 18:30

Modified

2025-12-29 21:30

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Details

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.

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CVE-2025-68973 (GCVE-0-2025-68973)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-12-28 16:19

Modified

2025-12-29 19:03

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

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.)

References

URL

Tags

	https://gpg.fail/memcpy
	https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403200
	https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/12/28/5
	https://github.com/gpg/gnupg/commit/115d138ba599328005c5321c0ef9f00355838ca9
	https://github.com/gpg/gnupg/blob/ff30683418695f5d2cc9e6cf8c9418e09378ebe4/g10/armor.c#L1305-L1306
	https://github.com/gpg/gnupg/compare/gnupg-2.2.50...gnupg-2.2.51

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	GnuPG	GnuPG	Version: 0 ≤ Version: 2.3.0 ≤ 2.4.8

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