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Alpine: multiple gnupg packages: security update to 2.4.9-r0

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 436537

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

 - In GnuPG through 2.4.8, if a signed message has \f at the end of a plaintext line, an adversary can
 construct a modified message that places additional text after the signed material, such that signature
 verification of the modified message succeeds (although an "invalid armor" message is printed during
 verification). This is related to use of \f as a marker to denote truncation of a long plaintext line.
 (CVE-2025-68972)

 - 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.) (CVE-2025-68973)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-68972

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2025-68973

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 436537

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Published: 1/1/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.01

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-68973

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-68972, CVE-2025-68973