Out-of-Bounds Affecting sharutils package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-SHARUTILS-11777718
  • published12 Aug 2025
  • disclosed9 Aug 2025

Introduced: 9 Aug 2025

NewCVE-2025-8746  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 sharutils.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sharutils package and not the sharutils package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in GNU libopts up to 27.6. Affected is the function __strstr_sse2. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. This issue was initially reported to the tcpreplay project, but the code maintainer explains, that this "bug appears to be in libopts which is an external library." This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1