SB2025122901 - Multiple vulnerabilities in GnuPG
Published: December 29, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Numeric truncation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-68972)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to spoof contents of signed messages.
The vulnerability exists due to software truncates plaintext lines to 20000 characters minus padding when verifying signed data. A remote attacker can inject arbitrary payload into signed messages that still could be verified, allowing message spoofing.
2) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-68973)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the armor_filter() function in g10/armor.c. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application, trigger an out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.