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2 vulnerabilities found for python-apt by Canonical
CVE-2025-6966 (GCVE-0-2025-6966)
Vulnerability from nvd
Published
2025-12-05 12:59
Modified
2025-12-15 22:04
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canonical | python-apt |
Version: 3.0 < 3.0.0ubuntu1.1 Version: 3.0 < 3.0.0ubuntu0.25.04.1 Version: 2.7 < 2.7.7ubuntu5.1 Version: 2.4 < 2.4.0ubuntu4.1 Version: 2.0 < 2.0.1ubuntu0.20.04.1+esm1 Version: 1.6 < 1.6.6ubuntu0.1~esm1 Version: 1.1 < 1.1.0~beta1ubuntu0.16.04.12+esm1 Version: 0 < 0.9.3.5ubuntu3+esm5 |
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CVE-2025-6966 (GCVE-0-2025-6966)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-05 12:59
Modified
2025-12-15 22:04
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Summary
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.
References
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| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canonical | python-apt |
Version: 3.0 < 3.0.0ubuntu1.1 Version: 3.0 < 3.0.0ubuntu0.25.04.1 Version: 2.7 < 2.7.7ubuntu5.1 Version: 2.4 < 2.4.0ubuntu4.1 Version: 2.0 < 2.0.1ubuntu0.20.04.1+esm1 Version: 1.6 < 1.6.6ubuntu0.1~esm1 Version: 1.1 < 1.1.0~beta1ubuntu0.16.04.12+esm1 Version: 0 < 0.9.3.5ubuntu3+esm5 |
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