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Package "gnupg2"

Name: gnupg2

Description:

GNU privacy guard - a free PGP replacement (dummy transitional package)
Latest version: 2.4.8-2ubuntu2.1
Release: questing (25.10)
Level: security
Repository: universe
Homepage: https://www.gnupg.org/

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Version: 2.4.8-2ubuntu2.1 2026-01-08 01:17:56 UTC

  gnupg2 (2.4.8-2ubuntu2.1) questing-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: Remote Code Execution
    - debian/patches/CVE-2025-68973.patch: gpg: Fix possible memory
    corruption in the armor parser.
    - CVE-2025-68973

 -- Allen Huang <email address hidden> Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:39:20 +0000
CVE-2025-68973 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 f


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