| Name | CVE-2025-47268 |
| Description | ping in iputils before 20250602 allows a denial of service (application error or incorrect data collection) via a crafted ICMP Echo Reply packet, because of a signed 64-bit integer overflow in timestamp multiplication. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1104746, 1109728 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| iputils (PTS) | bullseye | 3:20210202-1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 3:20221126-1+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| trixie | 3:20240905-3 | vulnerable |
| forky, sid | 3:20250605-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| iputils | source | (unstable) | 3:20250605-1 | unimportant | | 1104746, 1109728 |
Notes
https://github.com/iputils/iputils/issues/584
https://github.com/Zephkek/ping-rtt-overflow/
Fixed by: https://github.com/iputils/iputils/commit/070cfacd7348386173231fb16fad4983d4e6ae40
When fixing this issue make sure to address the fix completely an not open
up CVE-2025-48964.
Followup fix: https://github.com/iputils/iputils/commit/afa36390394a6e0cceba03b52b59b6d41710608c
Negligible security impact