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Fedora 42: FEDORA-2025-dd7e746aac moderate: iputils signed overflow

fedora
Calendar Grey May 20, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Alert: Fedora 42 has a crucial patch addressing a signed integer overflow vulnerability in iputils ping related to CVE-2025-47268. Update your system to maintain security.
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

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora CVE fix overflow network tools iputils

Change Log

* Sat May 17 2025 Kevin Fenzi - 20240905-4 - Add upstream patch for CVE-2025-47268.

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2364304 - CVE-2025-47268 iputils: Signed Integer Overflow in Timestamp Multiplication in iputils ping [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2364304

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-dd7e746aac' 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

Name: iputils
Product: Fedora 42
Version: 20240905
Release: 4.fc42
URL: https://github.com/iputils/iputils
Summary: Network monitoring tools including ping

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Topics Covered

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