Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2-2026-3125
Advisory Released Date: 2026-01-21
Advisory Updated Date: 2026-01-21
Severity:
Important
Issue Overview:
In GnuPG before 2.4.9, armor_filter in g10/armor.c has two increments of an index variable where one is intended, leading to an out-of-bounds write for crafted input. (For ExtendedLTS, 2.2.51 and later are fixed versions.) (CVE-2025-68973)
Affected Packages:
gnupg2
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update gnupg2 or yum update --advisory ALAS2-2026-3125 to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
gnupg2-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
gnupg2-smime-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
gnupg2-debuginfo-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
i686:
gnupg2-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.6.i686
gnupg2-smime-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.6.i686
gnupg2-debuginfo-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.6.i686
src:
gnupg2-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.6.src
x86_64:
gnupg2-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
gnupg2-smime-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
gnupg2-debuginfo-2.0.22-5.amzn2.0.6.x86_64