SUSE-SU-2025:20747-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2025-09-16 06:28 - Updated: 2026-09-20 18:17
Summary
Security update for net-tools
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Title of the patch: Security update for net-tools
Description of the patch: This update for net-tools fixes the following issues: - Fixed stack buffer overflow in parse_hex, proc_gen_fmt, ax25 and netrom (bsc#1248687) - CVE-2025-46836: Fixed stack buffer overflow caused by the absence of bound checks (bsc#1243581)
Patchnames: SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.1-265
Terms of use: CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
CVE-2025-46836
6.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Micro 6.1:net-tools-0:2.10-slfo.1.1_2.1.aarch64 —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Micro 6.1:net-tools-0:2.10-slfo.1.1_2.1.ppc64le —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Micro 6.1:net-tools-0:2.10-slfo.1.1_2.1.s390x —
Vendor Fix
Unresolved product id: SUSE Linux Micro 6.1:net-tools-0:2.10-slfo.1.1_2.1.x86_64 —
Vendor Fix
Threats
Impact moderate
References
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