Re: [PATCH] Fix CVE-2025-68972: Form feed detection in cleartext signatures

Hi, Shani.

On 14/01/2026 12:28, Shani Yosef via Gnupg-devel wrote:
> The attached patch (CVE-2025-68972.patch) adds form feed detection in 
> the cleartext signature
> hash calculation state machine. When '\f' is encountered, the function
> logs an error and fails with GPG_ERR_BAD_SIGNATURE.

What if the original document had a real '\f' in it? That would mean a 
signature over it would never validate. Would it not be cleaner to stop 
truncating and adding '\f', and instead just fail on overlong lines?

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