CVE-2025-8746

NameCVE-2025-8746
DescriptionA vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in GNU libopts up to 27.6. Affected is the function __strstr_sse2. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. This issue was initially reported to the tcpreplay project, but the code maintainer explains, that this "bug appears to be in libopts which is an external library." This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
autogen (PTS)bullseye1:5.18.16-4vulnerable
bookworm1:5.18.16-5vulnerable
forky, sid, trixie1:5.18.16-7vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
autogensource(unstable)(unfixed)unimportant

Notes

https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/957
Negligible security impact in projects depending on autogen/libopts.

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