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<h1>Security update for net-tools</h1>
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<th>Announcement ID:</th>
<td>SUSE-SU-2026:20940-1</td>
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<th>Release Date:</th>
<td>2026-03-26T15:12:43Z</td>
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<th>Rating:</th>
<td>moderate</td>
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<th>References:</th>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243581">bsc#1243581</a>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248410">bsc#1248410</a>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248687">bsc#1248687</a>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=142461">bsc#142461</a>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430864">bsc#430864</a>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544339">bsc#544339</a>
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Cross-References:
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<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-46836.html">CVE-2025-46836</a>
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<th>CVSS scores:</th>
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<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-46836</span>
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(
SUSE
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<span class="cvss-score">5.8</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N</span>
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<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-46836</span>
<span class="cvss-source">
(
SUSE
):
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<span class="cvss-score">6.6</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H</span>
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<span class="cvss-reference">CVE-2025-46836</span>
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(
NVD
):
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<span class="cvss-score">6.6</span>
<span class="cvss-vector">CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H</span>
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<th>Affected Products:</th>
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<li class="list-group-item">SUSE Linux Enterprise Server - BCI 16.0</li>
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<p>An update that solves one vulnerability and has five fixes can now be installed.</p>
<h2>Description:</h2>
<p>This update for net-tools fixes the following issues:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fix stack buffer overflow in parse_hex (bsc#1248687, GHSA-h667-qrp8-gj58).</li>
<li>Fix stack-based buffer overflow in proc_gen_fmt (bsc#1248687, GHSA-w7jq-cmw2-cq59).</li>
<li>Avoid unsafe memcpy in ifconfig (bsc#1248687).</li>
<li>Prevent overflow in ax25 and netrom (bsc#1248687)</li>
<li>Keep possibility to enter long interface names, even if they are
not accepted by the kernel, because it was always possible up to
CVE-2025-46836 fix. But issue a warning about an interface name
concatenation (bsc#1248410).</li>
</ul>
<h2>Patch Instructions:</h2>
<p>
To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended
installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".<br/>
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:
</p>
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server - BCI 16.0
<br/>
<code>zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLES-16.0-454=1</code>
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<h2>Package List:</h2>
<ul>
<li>
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server - BCI 16.0 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
<ul>
<li>net-tools-debugsource-2.10-160000.3.1</li>
<li>net-tools-2.10-160000.3.1</li>
<li>net-tools-debuginfo-2.10-160000.3.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server - BCI 16.0 (noarch)
<ul>
<li>net-tools-lang-2.10-160000.3.1</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>References:</h2>
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<li>
<a href="https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-46836.html">https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-46836.html</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243581">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243581</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248410">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248410</a>
</li>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248687">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248687</a>
</li>
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<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=142461">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=142461</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430864">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430864</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544339">https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544339</a>
</li>
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