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openSUSE 15.6: net-tools Moderate Buffer Overflow Fix SUSE-SU-2025:03260-1

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Calendar Grey September 18, 2025
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The net-tools package has been updated to fix serious stack overflow vulnerabilities affecting multiple SUSE products. See advisory SUSE-SU-2025:03260-1 for details
An update that solves one vulnerability and has four security fixes can now be installed.

Description

This update for net-tools fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

* CVE-2025-46836: missing bounds check in `get_name` may lead to a stack

buffer overflow (bsc#1243581).

* Avoid unsafe use of `memcpy` in `ifconfig` (bsc#1248687).

* Prevent overflow in `ax25` and `netrom` (bsc#1248687).

* Fix stack buffer overflow in `parse_hex` (bsc#1248687).

* Fix stack buffer overflow in `proc_gen_fmt` (bsc#1248687).

Other issues fixed:

* Allow use of long interface names after CVE-2025-46836 fix, even if they are

not accepted by the kernel (bsc#1248410).

* Fix netrom support.

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Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like

YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-3260=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.3-2025-3260=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-3260=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.4-2025-3260=1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2025-3260=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP6-2025-3260=1

* Basesystem Module 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-SP7-2025-3260=1

* Legacy Module 15-SP6

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Legacy-15-SP6-2025-3260=1

* Legacy Module 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Legacy-15-SP7-2025-3260=1

* SUSE Linux...

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Package List

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)

* net-tools-debugsource-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1

* net-tools-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1

* net-tools-debuginfo-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)

* net-tools-debugsource-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1

* net-tools-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1

* net-tools-debuginfo-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)

* net-tools-debugsource-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1

* net-tools-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1

* net-tools-debuginfo-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 (aarch64 s390x x86_64)

* net-tools-debugsource-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1

* net-tools-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1

* net-tools-debuginfo-2.0+git20170221.479bb4a-150000.5.13.1

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

*...

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References

* bsc#1243581

* bsc#1246608

* bsc#1248410

* bsc#1248687

* bsc#142461

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-46836.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243581

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246608

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248410

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248687

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=142461

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:03260-1
Release Date: 2025-09-18T00:10:06Z
Affected Products: * Basesystem Module 15-SP6 * Basesystem Module 15-SP7 * Legacy Module 15-SP6 * Legacy Module 15-SP7 * openSUSE Leap 15.6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.2 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.3 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro for Rancher 5.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7

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