| Package | gnupg2 |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.1.18-8~deb9u6 (stretch), 2.2.12-1+deb10u3 (buster) |
| Related CVEs | CVE-2025-68973 |
Several issues have been discovered in gnupg2, a tool for secure communication and data storage.
CVE-2025-68973
There exist memory corruptions in the armor parsing code of GnuPG
that can be exploited to provide primitives like out of bounds
buffer read and write. This might be exploitable to the point of
remote code execution (RCE).
Additional issues:
+ Potential key signature digest algorithm downgrade.
GnuPG may downgrade the message digest algorithm to insecure SHA1
algorithm during signature checking due to reading from
uninitialized memory. This reduces the security of User ID
Certification Signatures to that of SHA1. SHA1 suffers from known
cryptographic weaknesses like chosen prefix attacks.
+ Multiple plaintext attack on detached PGP signatures.
An attacker can arbitrarily swap the plaintext shown to a GnuPG
user, when the user verifies a detached signature versus views it
with `--decrypt`. This attack allows deceiving users verifying
messages, following GnuPG usage best practices about the content
of a message signed with a detached signature. Note, that it is
possible in many scenarios to convert between signature types,
i.e., convert a different signature type to a detached signature.
+ GnuPG Accepts Path Separators and Path Traversals in Literal Data.
GnuPG accepts arbitrary file paths in the unsigned Literal Data
packet filename field and uses that value without sufficient
sanitization. In combination with tricking a user with ANSI
formatted output that changes GnuPG output with deceptive apparent
GnuPG logs, this can lead to creation or overwrite of any file on
the system the user can write to, including executable files which
the user may later execute.
For Debian 10 buster, these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.12-1+deb10u3.
For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.18-8~deb9u6.
We recommend that you upgrade your gnupg2 packages.
Further information about Extended LTS security advisories can be found in the dedicated section of our website.