CVE-2025-68973
gnupg2 - security update
7.0
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.02%
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.)
How to fix CVE-2025-68973
To remediate CVE-2025-68973, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/gnupg—upgrade to 2.4.9-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 2.2.27-2+deb11u3 or later
- —upgrade to 2.2.27-2+deb11u3 or later
Is CVE-2025-68973 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 2.4.9-r0
- from 0, < 2.2.27-2+deb11u3
- from 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 |