Fedora 41: FEDORA-2025-7e1b66f54e critical: iputils signed integer overflow
fedora
May 24, 2025
Fix for CVE-2025-47268
Summary
The iputils package contains basic utilities for monitoring a network,
including ping. The ping command sends a series of ICMP protocol
ECHO_REQUEST packets to a specified network host to discover whether
the target machine is alive and receiving network traffic.
Update Information:
Fix for CVE-2025-47268
Change Log
* Sat May 17 2025 Kevin Fenzi
References
[ 1 ] Bug #2364303 - CVE-2025-47268 iputils: Signed Integer Overflow in Timestamp Multiplication in iputils ping [fedora-41]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2364303
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-7e1b66f54e' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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Name: iputils
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 20240905
Release: 4.fc41
Summary: Network monitoring tools including ping
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