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SUSE GPG2 Essential Security Patch for CVE-2025-68973 Alert

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Calendar Grey February 4, 2026
Dist Suse Esm H88
An important security update for gpg2 resolves one critical issue and three fixes. Upgrade for enhanced protection.
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: Fixed possile memory corruption in the armor parser [T7906] (bsc#1255715) * Fixed GnuPG Accepting Path Separators and Path Traversals in Literal Data (bsc#1256389) * Fixed Cleartext Signature Forgery in the NotDashEscaped header implementation in GnuPG (bsc#1256390) * Fixed error out on unverified output for non-detached signatures [T7903] (bsc#1256244) ## 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 Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-EXTENDED-SECURITY-2026-378=1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS

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Topics Covered

security advisory SuSE memory corruption important path traversal gpg2

References

* bsc#1255715

* bsc#1256244

* bsc#1256389

* 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:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

An update that solves one vulnerability and has three security fixes can now be

installed.

##

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-68973.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1255715

Severity
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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:0378-1
Release Date: 2026-02-04T07:38:17Z
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory SuSE memory corruption important path traversal gpg2

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