Security update for net-tools

Announcement ID:	SUSE-SU-2025:03260-1
Release Date:	2025-09-18T00:10:06Z
Rating:	moderate
References:	bsc#1243581 bsc#1246608 bsc#1248410 bsc#1248687 bsc#142461
Cross-References:	CVE-2025-46836
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:	Basesystem Module 15-SP6 Basesystem Module 15-SP7 Legacy Module 15-SP6 Legacy Module 15-SP7 openSUSE Leap 15.6 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2 SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7

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

Description:

This update for net-tools fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

• CVE-2025-46836: missing bounds check in get_name may lead to a stack buffer overflow (bsc#1243581).
• 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).
• Fix netrom support.

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 Micro for Rancher 5.3
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-3260=1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-3260=1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-3260=1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-3260=1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2025-3260=1
• Basesystem Module 15-SP6
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-3260=1
• Basesystem Module 15-SP7
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2025-3260=1
• Legacy Module 15-SP6
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Legacy-15-SP6-2025-3260=1
• Legacy Module 15-SP7
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Legacy-15-SP7-2025-3260=1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.1-2025-3260=1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2025-3260=1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2
  zypper in -t patch SUSE-SUSE-MicroOS-5.2-2025-3260=1
• openSUSE Leap 15.6
  zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.6-2025-3260=1

Package List:

• SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
  • net-tools-debugsource-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-debuginfo-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
  • net-tools-debugsource-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-debuginfo-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
  • net-tools-debugsource-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-debuginfo-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
  • net-tools-debugsource-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-debuginfo-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
  • net-tools-debugsource-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-debuginfo-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
• Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
  • net-tools-debugsource-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-debuginfo-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
• Basesystem Module 15-SP6 (noarch)
  • net-tools-lang-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
• Basesystem Module 15-SP7 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
  • net-tools-debugsource-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-debuginfo-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
• Basesystem Module 15-SP7 (noarch)
  • net-tools-lang-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
• Legacy Module 15-SP6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
  • net-tools-debugsource-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-deprecated-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-debuginfo-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-deprecated-debuginfo-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
• Legacy Module 15-SP7 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
  • net-tools-debugsource-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-deprecated-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-debuginfo-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-deprecated-debuginfo-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
  • net-tools-debugsource-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-debuginfo-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
  • net-tools-debugsource-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-debuginfo-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)
  • net-tools-debugsource-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-debuginfo-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
• openSUSE Leap 15.6 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
  • net-tools-debugsource-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-deprecated-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-deprecated-debuginfo-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-debuginfo-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
  • net-tools-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1
• openSUSE Leap 15.6 (noarch)
  • net-tools-lang-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1

References:

• https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-46836.html
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243581
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246608
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248410
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248687
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=142461