Vulnerability · Published Jul 22, 2025 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2025-48964
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity integer overflow in iputils from iputils. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 35% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Official description
ping in iputils before 20250602 allows a denial of service (application error in adaptive ping mode or incorrect data collection) via a crafted ICMP Echo Reply packet, because a zero timestamp can lead to large intermediate values that have an integer overflow when squared during statistics calculations. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2025-47268 (that fix was only about timestamp calculations, and it did not account for a specific scenario where the original timestamp in the ICMP payload is zero).
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux:10 | iputils | 20240905-5.el10 | ALSA-2026:18162 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | iputils | 20210202-11.el9_6.3 | ALSA-2025:17558 |
| AlmaLinux:9 | iputils-ninfod | 20210202-11.el9_6.3 | ALSA-2025:17558 |
| Alpine:v3.23 | iputils | 20250602-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2025-48964 |
| Alpine:v3.24 | iputils | 20250602-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2025-48964 |
| Rocky Linux:10 | iputils | 0:20240905-5.el10 | RLSA-2026:18162 |
| Rocky Linux:9 | iputils | 0:20210202-11.el9_6.3 | RLSA-2025:17558 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | iputils | 3:20211215-1ubuntu0.1 | USN-7670-1 |
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | iputils | 3:20211215-1ubuntu0.1 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-48964 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | iputils | 3:20240117-1ubuntu0.1 | USN-7670-1 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | iputils | 3:20240117-1ubuntu0.1 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-48964 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | iputils | 3:20240905-3ubuntu2 | UBUNTU-CVE-2025-48964 |
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-190 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
References
- https://github.com/iputils/iputils/issues
- https://github.com/iputils/iputils/security/advisories/GHSA-25fr-jw29-74f9
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243772
- https://github.com/iputils/iputils/commit/afa36390394a6e0cceba03b52b59b6d41710608c
- https://github.com/iputils/iputils/releases/tag/20250602