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CVE-2025-6966mediumCWE-476

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

13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 6.9epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 96% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
Canonical · python-apt