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general

source: gnupg2 (main)
version: 2.4.8-5
maintainer: Debian GnuPG Maintainers (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Eric Dorland [DMD] – Daniel Kahn Gillmor [DMD] – Andreas Metzler [DMD]
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.7.2
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 2.2.27-2+deb11u2
o-o-sec: 2.2.27-2+deb11u2
oldstable: 2.2.40-1.1+deb12u1
old-p-u: 2.2.40-1.1+deb12u2
stable: 2.4.7-21
stable-p-u: 2.4.7-21+deb13u1
testing: 2.4.8-5
unstable: 2.4.8-5
exp: 2.4.9-1

versioned links

2.2.27-2+deb11u2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.2.40-1.1+deb12u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.2.40-1.1+deb12u2: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.4.7-21: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.4.7-21+deb13u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.4.8-4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.4.8-5: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.4.9-1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

dirmngr (10 bugs: 0, 6, 4, 0)
gnupg (87 bugs: 0, 66, 21, 0)
gnupg-agent (42 bugs: 0, 34, 8, 0)
gnupg-l10n
gnupg-utils
gnupg2 (36 bugs: 0, 22, 14, 0)
gpg (20 bugs: 0, 15, 5, 0)
gpg-agent (15 bugs: 0, 11, 4, 0)
gpg-wks-client (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
gpg-wks-server
gpgconf (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
gpgsm (5 bugs: 0, 5, 0, 0)
gpgv (4 bugs: 0, 4, 0, 0)
gpgv-static
gpgv-udeb
gpgv-win32
scdaemon (11 bugs: 0, 9, 2, 0)
tpm2daemon

action needed

A new upstream version is available: 2.4.9 high

A new upstream version 2.4.9 is available, you should consider packaging it.

Created: 2026-01-02 Last update: 2026-01-08 09:31

2 security issues in trixie high

There are 2 open security issues in trixie.

1 important issue:

CVE-2025-68973: 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.)

1 issue left for the package maintainer to handle:

CVE-2025-68972: (needs triaging) 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.

You can find information about how to handle this issue in the security team's documentation.

Created: 2025-12-28 Last update: 2026-01-06 11:30

1 security issue in sid high

There is 1 open security issue in sid.

1 important issue:

CVE-2025-68972: 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.

Created: 2025-12-28 Last update: 2026-01-06 11:30

1 security issue in forky high

There is 1 open security issue in forky.

1 important issue:

CVE-2025-68972: 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.

Created: 2025-12-28 Last update: 2026-01-06 11:30

3 security issues in bullseye high

There are 3 open security issues in bullseye.

2 important issues:

CVE-2025-68972: 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-2025-68973: 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.)

1 issue postponed or untriaged:

CVE-2025-30258: (postponed; to be fixed through a stable update) In GnuPG before 2.5.5, if a user chooses to import a certificate with certain crafted subkey data that lacks a valid backsig or that has incorrect usage flags, the user loses the ability to verify signatures made from certain other signing keys, aka a "verification DoS."

Created: 2025-12-28 Last update: 2026-01-06 11:30

1 bug tagged help in the BTS normal

The BTS contains 1 bug tagged help, please consider helping the maintainer in dealing with it.

Created: 2019-03-21 Last update: 2026-01-08 13:00

5 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 5 bugs (6 if counting merged bugs), consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2025-01-06 Last update: 2026-01-08 13:00

2 new commits since last upload, is it time to release? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have new commits in its VCS but has not yet updated debian/changelog. You should consider updating the Debian changelog and uploading this new version into the archive.

Here are the relevant commit logs:

commit e7e769ec4af1db580713e431b3f35f8e61529b16
Author: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de>
Date:   Wed Jan 7 18:42:43 2026 +0100

    Highlight/exclude minisign issues.

commit b0c9e7cd768e747303d80bd83f8e983c322040e6
Author: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de>
Date:   Wed Jan 7 18:39:47 2026 +0100

    Update gpg.fail Debian status info

Created: 2026-01-07 Last update: 2026-01-07 18:17

lintian reports 3 warnings normal

Lintian reports 3 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2025-12-30 Last update: 2025-12-30 05:30

2 low-priority security issues in bookworm low

There are 2 open security issues in bookworm.

2 issues left for the package maintainer to handle:

CVE-2025-30258: (needs triaging) In GnuPG before 2.5.5, if a user chooses to import a certificate with certain crafted subkey data that lacks a valid backsig or that has incorrect usage flags, the user loses the ability to verify signatures made from certain other signing keys, aka a "verification DoS."
CVE-2025-68972: (needs triaging) 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.

You can find information about how to handle these issues in the security team's documentation.

1 issue that should be fixed with the next stable update:

CVE-2025-68973: 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.)

Created: 2025-03-20 Last update: 2026-01-06 11:30

debian/patches: 43 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 49 debian patches available in version 2.4.8-5 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

43 patches where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the metadata to document its real status.

Created: 2023-02-26 Last update: 2025-12-30 08:00

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.3 instead of 4.7.2).

Created: 2025-12-23 Last update: 2025-12-29 23:00

news

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[2026-01-06] gnupg2 2.4.8-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-01-03] Accepted gnupg2 2.2.40-1.1+deb12u2 (source) into oldstable-proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: dkg@debian.org)
[2026-01-01] Accepted gnupg2 2.4.7-21+deb13u1 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Andreas Metzler)
[2025-12-30] Accepted gnupg2 2.4.9-1 (source) into experimental (Daniel Kahn Gillmor) (signed by: dkg@debian.org)
[2025-12-30] Accepted gnupg2 2.4.8-6 (source) into experimental (Andreas Metzler)
[2025-12-29] Accepted gnupg2 2.4.8-5 (source) into unstable (Andreas Metzler)
[2025-10-26] gnupg2 2.4.8-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-10-22] Accepted gnupg2 2.4.8-4 (source) into unstable (Daniel Kahn Gillmor) (signed by: dkg@debian.org)
[2025-08-29] gnupg2 2.4.8-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-08-21] Accepted gnupg2 2.4.8-3 (source) into unstable (Andreas Metzler)
[2025-08-19] gnupg2 2.4.8-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-08-11] Accepted gnupg2 2.4.8-2 (source) into unstable (Andreas Metzler)
[2025-06-29] Accepted gnupg2 2.4.8-1 (source) into experimental (Andreas Metzler)
[2025-06-21] Accepted gnupg2 2.2.40-1.1+deb12u1 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Andreas Metzler)
[2025-06-06] gnupg2 2.4.7-21 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-06-01] Accepted gnupg2 2.4.7-21 (source) into unstable (Andreas Metzler)
[2025-06-01] gnupg2 2.4.7-19 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-05-31] Accepted gnupg2 2.4.7-20 (source) into experimental (Andreas Metzler)
[2025-05-14] Accepted gnupg2 2.4.7-19 (source) into unstable (Andreas Metzler)
[2025-05-11] Accepted gnupg2 2.4.7-18 (source) into experimental (Andreas Metzler)
[2025-05-09] gnupg2 2.4.7-17 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-04-28] Accepted gnupg2 2.4.7-17 (source) into unstable (Andreas Metzler)
[2025-04-26] Accepted gnupg2 2.4.7-16 (source) into unstable (Andreas Metzler)
[2025-04-26] gnupg2 2.4.7-15 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-04-16] Accepted gnupg2 2.4.7-15 (source) into unstable (Daniel Kahn Gillmor) (signed by: dkg@debian.org)
[2025-04-12] Accepted gnupg2 2.4.7-14 (source) into unstable (Daniel Kahn Gillmor) (signed by: dkg@debian.org)
[2025-04-10] Accepted gnupg2 2.4.7-13 (source) into unstable (Daniel Kahn Gillmor) (signed by: dkg@debian.org)
[2025-04-08] Accepted gnupg2 2.4.7-12 (source) into experimental (Daniel Kahn Gillmor) (signed by: dkg@debian.org)
[2025-03-31] Accepted gnupg2 2.4.7-11 (source) into experimental (Andreas Metzler)
[2025-03-28] gnupg2 2.2.46-6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 229 241
RC: 0
I&N: 173 182
M&W: 56 59
F&P: 0
patch: 5 6
help: 1

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version: 2.4.8-4ubuntu1
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