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Fedora 41: systemd Critical Buffer Overflow Patch FEDORA-2025-112a987b3f

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Calendar Grey August 7, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Important patch released for Fedora 41's iputils to resolve CVE-2025-48964. Apply the update immediately to ensure network protection.
Update to 20250602 with fixes for CVE-2025-48964

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:

Update to 20250602 with fixes for CVE-2025-48964

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora network monitoring important integer overflow iputils

Change Log

* Fri Jul 25 2025 Jan Macku - 20250602-3 - remove build dependency on openssl-devel removed in s20200821 * Thu Jul 24 2025 Fedora Release Engineering - 20250602-2 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_43_Mass_Rebuild * Sun Jul 13 2025 Kevin Fenzi - 20250602-1 - Update to 20250602. Fixes rhbz#2369782

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2382663 - CVE-2025-48964 iputils: iputils integer overflow [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2382663 [ 2 ] Bug #2382664 - CVE-2025-48964 iputils: iputils integer overflow [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2382664

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-885e731f6f' 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: 20250602
Release: 3.fc41
URL: https://github.com/iputils/iputils
Summary: Network monitoring tools including ping

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora network monitoring important integer overflow iputils

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