Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting iputils/iputils package, versions [,20250602)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-IPUTILSIPUTILS-11431274
  • published4 Aug 2025
  • disclosed22 Jul 2025
  • creditMohamed Maatallah

Introduced: 22 Jul 2025

NewCVE-2025-48964  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade iputils/iputils to version 20250602 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Integer Overflow or Wraparound via the ping process when handling a crafted ICMP Echo Reply packet containing a zero timestamp. An attacker can cause application errors or incorrect data collection by triggering an integer overflow during statistics calculations.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1