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openSUSE 15.3 gpg2 Important Security Update CVE-2025-68973

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Calendar Grey January 22, 2026
Dist Suse Esm H88
Discover the important security update for gpg2 on openSUSE addressing critical memory issues and fixes.
An update that solves one vulnerability and has three security fixes can now be installed.

Summary

## This update for gpg2 fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-68973: Fix possible memory corruption in the armor parser (gpg.fail/memcpy)(bsc#1255715). * Avoid potential downgrade to SHA1 in 3rd party key signatures (gpg.fail/sha1) (bsc#1256246). * Error out on unverified output for non-detached signatures (gpg.fail/detached) (bsc#1256244). * Fix Cleartext Signature Forgery in the NotDashEscaped header implementation in GnuPG (gpg.fail/notdash) (bsc#1256390). ## Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch". Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2026-214=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

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References

* bsc#1255715

* bsc#1256244

* bsc#1256246

* bsc#1256390

Cross-

* CVE-2025-68973

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-68973 ( SUSE ): 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

* CVE-2025-68973 ( NVD ): 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

* CVE-2025-68973 ( NVD ): 7.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products:

* openSUSE Leap 15.3

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing ESPOS 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP4

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing LTSS 15 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:0214-1
Release Date: 2026-01-22T12:10:07Z
Rating: important

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