CVE-2025-48964

MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: July 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 09:30 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorIputils

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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.4%
SSVC
PoC

Description

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).

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 20250602
Affected range stops below 20250602, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

6.5MEDIUMmitre
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-190

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