CVE-2025-6966
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-6966
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-6966.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-6966
- Downstream
- Published
- 2025-12-05T13:16:05.220Z
- Modified
- 2026-02-17T00:49:02.019935Z
- Severity
-
- 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
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.
- References
-
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-apt/+bug/2091865
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/12/msg00019.html
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-apt/+bug/2091865
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/12/msg00019.html
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python-apt/+bug/2091865
Affected packages
Git / github.com/pypa/setuptools
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/pypa/setuptools
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
Affected versions
0.*
0.6
0.6.1
0.6.10
0.6.11
0.6.12
0.6.13
0.6.14
0.6.15
0.6.16
0.6.17
0.6.18
0.6.19
0.6.2
0.6.20
0.6.21
0.6.23
0.6.24
0.6.25
0.6.26
0.6.27
0.6.28
0.6.29
0.6.3
0.6.30
0.6.31
0.6.32
0.6.33
0.6.34
0.6.35
0.6.36
0.6.37
0.6.38
0.6.39
0.6.4
0.6.40
0.6.41
0.6.42
0.6.43
0.6.44
0.6.45
0.6.46
0.6.47
0.6.48
0.6.49
0.6.5
0.6.6
0.6.7
0.6.8
0.6.9
0.7
0.7.1
0.7.2
0.7.3
0.7.4
0.7.5
0.7.6
0.7.7
0.7.8
0.7b1
0.7b2
0.7b3
0.7b4
0.8
0.8b1
0.8b2
0.8b3
0.8b4
0.8b5
0.8b6
0.8b7
0.9
0.9.1
0.9.2
0.9.3
0.9.4
0.9.5
0.9.6
0.9.7
0.9.8
1.*
1.0
1.0b1
1.0b2
1.0b3
1.1
1.1.1
1.1.2
1.1.3
1.1.4
1.1.5
1.1.6
1.1.7
1.2
1.2b1
1.3
1.3.1
1.3.2
1.4
1.4.1
1.4.2
1.4b1
2.*
2.0
Other
archive/bootstrap-py24