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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-48685 EUVD-2026-31841GHSA-4h2g-xxvj-v3w5

FastNetMon Community Edition through 1.2.9 has out-of-bounds memory access because it incorrectly parses BGP path attributes with the exten…

Published May 26, 2026 · Updated May 26, 2026 · Assigned by mitre

Description

FastNetMon Community Edition through 1.2.9 has out-of-bounds memory access because it incorrectly parses BGP path attributes with the extended length flag set. In src/bgp_protocol.hpp, the parse_raw_bgp_attribute() function correctly identifies when extended_length_bit is set and sets length_of_length_field to 2, but then reads only a single byte for the attribute value length (attribute_value_length = value[2] at line 173). Per RFC 4271 Section 4.3, when the Extended Length bit is set, the Attribute Length field is two octets and the value should be read as a 16-bit big-endian integer from value[2] and value[3]. As a result, any attribute longer than 255 bytes has its length silently truncated to the low byte (e.g., 300 bytes = 0x012C is read as 0x2C = 44 bytes). The remaining 256 bytes are then misinterpreted as subsequent attributes, causing cascading parse failures and potential out-of-bounds memory access.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 fastnetmon 1.2.9-1 —
Debian 13 fastnetmon 1.2.9-0+deb13u1 —
Debian 12 fastnetmon No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 fastnetmon No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 fastnetmon No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS fastnetmon No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS fastnetmon No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS fastnetmon No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS fastnetmon No fix yet —

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