Security update for net-tools

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:03245-1
Release Date: 2025-09-17T10:55:16Z
Rating: moderate
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CVSS scores:
  • CVE-2025-46836 ( SUSE ): 5.8 CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
  • CVE-2025-46836 ( SUSE ): 6.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
  • CVE-2025-46836 ( NVD ): 6.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

An update that solves one vulnerability and has two security fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for net-tools fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • Avoid unsafe use of memcpy in ifconfig (bsc#1248687).
  • Prevent overflow in ax25 and netrom (bsc#1248687).
  • Fix stack buffer overflow in parse_hex (bsc#1248687).
  • Fix stack buffer overflow in proc_gen_fmt (bsc#1248687).

Other issues fixed:

  • Allow use of long interface names after CVE-2025-46836 fix, even if they are not accepted by the kernel (bsc#1248410).

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP5-LTSS-EXTENDED-SECURITY-2025-3245=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security (x86_64)
    • net-tools-debuginfo-1.60-765.15.1
    • net-tools-debugsource-1.60-765.15.1
    • net-tools-1.60-765.15.1

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