Security Advisory

CVE-2025-6966

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-12-05 12:59:41
Last updated 2025-12-15 22:04:15
Assigner canonical
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.