{"id":"openSUSE-SU-2026:20437-1","summary":"Security update for net-tools","details":"This update for net-tools fixes the following issues:\n\n- Fix stack buffer overflow in parse_hex (bsc#1248687, GHSA-h667-qrp8-gj58).\n- Fix stack-based buffer overflow in proc_gen_fmt (bsc#1248687, GHSA-w7jq-cmw2-cq59).\n- Avoid unsafe memcpy in ifconfig (bsc#1248687).\n- Prevent overflow in ax25 and netrom (bsc#1248687)\n- Keep possibility to enter long interface names, even if they are\n  not accepted by the kernel, because it was always possible up to\n  CVE-2025-46836 fix. But issue a warning about an interface name\n  concatenation (bsc#1248410).\n","modified":"2026-04-03T17:24:34.084866Z","published":"2026-03-26T15:12:43Z","related":["CVE-2025-46836"],"upstream":["CVE-2025-46836"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1243581"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1248410"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1248687"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/142461"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/430864"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.suse.com/544339"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-46836"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"net-tools","ecosystem":"openSUSE:Leap 16.0","purl":"pkg:rpm/opensuse/net-tools&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.10-160000.3.1"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"net-tools-deprecated":"2.10-160000.3.1","net-tools-lang":"2.10-160000.3.1","net-tools":"2.10-160000.3.1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/osv/openSUSE-SU-2026:20437-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}