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).

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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). (CVE-2025-48964)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-885e731f6f advisory.

    Update to 20250602 with fixes for CVE-2025-48964

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7670-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that the iputils ping utility incorrectly handled certain ICMP Echo Reply packets. A     remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause iputils to consume resources, leading to a denial     of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-38be836506 advisory.

    Update to 20250602 with fixes for CVE-2025-48964

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02431-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2025-48964: Fixed integer overflow in ping statistics via zero timestamp (bsc#1243772).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:02432-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2025-48964: Fixed integer overflow in ping statistics via zero timestamp (bsc#1243772)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02430-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2025-48964: Fixed integer overflow in ping statistics via zero timestamp (bsc#1243772).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
249780	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-48964	Nessus	Misc.	medium
244370	Fedora 41 : iputils (2025-885e731f6f)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
242902	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.04 : iputils vulnerability (USN-7670-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
242882	Fedora 42 : iputils (2025-38be836506)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
242521	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : iputils (SUSE-SU-2025:02431-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
242517	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : iputils (SUSE-SU-2025:02432-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
242501	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : iputils (SUSE-SU-2025:02430-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium

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