CVE-2025-46836

medium

Published 2025-05-14 · Modified 2026-05-12

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CVSS v3

6.6

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.6

Description

net-tools is a collection of programs that form the base set of the NET-3 networking distribution for the Linux operating system. Inn versions up to and including 2.10, the Linux network utilities (like ifconfig) from the net-tools package do not properly validate the structure of /proc files when showing interfaces. `get_name()` in `interface.c` copies interface labels from `/proc/net/dev` into a fixed 16-byte stack buffer without bounds checking, leading to possible arbitrary code execution or crash. The known attack path does not require privilege but also does not provide privilege escalation in this scenario. A patch is available and expected to be part of version 2.20.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

65%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2.10-1.2`
sid	Fixed	`2.10-1.2`
forky	Fixed	`2.10-1.2`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.60+git20181103.0eebece-1+deb11u2`
bookworm	Fixed	`2.10-0.1+deb12u1`

References

CWEs

CWE-20 CWE-121

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.