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Medium USN-7537-1 1 CVE

net-tools vulnerability

Published May 27, 2025 · Updated Apr 27, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that net-tools incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possible use this issue to cause a crash or execute
arbitrary code.

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS net-tools 1.60+git20180626.aebd88e-1ubuntu1.1
Ubuntu · 22.04 LTS 22.04:LTS net-tools 1.60+git20181103.0eebece-1ubuntu5.1
Ubuntu · 24.04 LTS 24.04:LTS net-tools 2.10-0.1ubuntu4.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 6.6
    CVE-2025-46836

    net-tools Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability

    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 val…

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References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-46836