Integer overflow in iputils - CVE-2025-48964
Published: September 2, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU114680
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-48964
CWE-ID: CWE-190
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: iputils
Affected software:
iputils
iputils
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in ping. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted ICMP Echo Reply packet to trigger an integer overflow and crash the application.
How to mitigate CVE-2025-48964
Install updates from vendor's website.
Sources
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243772
- https://github.com/iputils/iputils/commit/afa36390394a6e0cceba03b52b59b6d41710608c
- https://github.com/iputils/iputils/issues
- https://github.com/iputils/iputils/releases/tag/20250602
- https://github.com/iputils/iputils/security/advisories/GHSA-25fr-jw29-74f9