CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-6966

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2025-12-05 Modified 2026-09-25 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-12-05
Last modified
2026-09-25
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

NULL pointer dereference in TagSection.keys() in python-apt on APT-based Linux systems allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service (process crash) via a crafted deb822 file with a malformed non-UTF-8 key.

Affected configurations

• ubuntu python-apt (< 0.9.3.11) • ubuntu python-apt (>= 1.6.0 < 1.6.6) • ubuntu python-apt (>= 2.0.0 < 2.0.1) • ubuntu python-apt (>= 2.7.0 < 2.7.7) • ubuntu python-apt 0.9.3.5 • ubuntu python-apt 0.9.3.11 • ubuntu python-apt 1.1.0 • ubuntu python-apt 1.6.6 • ubuntu python-apt 2.0.1 • ubuntu python-apt 2.4.0 • ubuntu python-apt 2.7.7 • ubuntu python-apt 3.0.0 • debian debian linux 11.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References