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CVE-2025-6966
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2025-12-05T13:16:05.220 · Last modified 2026-06-17T10:02:57.803

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.

Affected products

ubuntu — python-apt

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References

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