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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 for crafted input. (For ExtendedLTS, 2.2.51 and later are fixed versions.)

Score
7.8 high
Published
2025-12-28
Links
NVD · cve.org

Affected ports (2)

PortPackageVersionStatusMaintainer
security/gnupg1gnupg11.4.23_5unaddressedadridg@FreeBSD.org
security/linux-rl9-gnupglinux-rl9-gnupg22.3.3_3unaddressedemulation@FreeBSD.org

Template for a VuXML entry

Range taken from the CVE record, check it before committing. make newentry in security/vuxml creates the vid.

  <vuln vid="FIXME (make newentry)">
    <topic>FIXME -- FIXME</topic>
    <affects>
      <package>
	<name>gnupg1</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
      <package>
	<name>linux-rl9-gnupg2</name>
	<range><lt>FIXME</lt></range>
      </package>
    </affects>
    <description>
      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
	<p>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.)</p>
      </body>
    </description>
    <references>
      <cvename>CVE-2025-68973</cvename>
      <url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68973</url>
    </references>
    <dates>
      <discovery>2025-12-28</discovery>
      <entry>2026-10-25</entry>
    </dates>
  </vuln>