CVE-2025-6966

A flaw was found in python-apt. This vulnerability allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service Denial of Service process crash via a crafted deb822 file with a malformed non-UTF-8 key. Mitigation Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not...

CVE-2025-6966 Null-pointer dereference in python-apt TagSection.keys()

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...

CVE-2025-6966

CVE-2025-6966 is a vulnerability in Python-apt on APT-based Linux systems caused by a NULL pointer dereference in TagSection.keys() when processing deb822 files with malformed non-UTF-8 keys. It can lead to a local denial of service (process crash). The issue is reported across multiple distribut...