CVE-2025-48990

NeKernel has Heap Overflow in `rt_copy_memory`

HIGH
8.6
CVSS Score
Published: June 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 09:30 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorNekernel

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Severity
HIGH8.6
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

NeKernal is a free and open-source operating system stack. Version 0.0.2 has a 1-byte heap overflow in `rt_copy_memory`, which unconditionally wrote a null terminator at `dst[len]`. When `len` equals the size of the destination buffer (256 bytes), that extra `'\0'` write overruns the buffer by one byte. To avoid breaking existing callers or changing the public API, the patch in commit fb7b7f658327f659c6a6da1af151cb389c2ca4ee takes a minimal approach: it simply removes the overflow-causing line without adding bounds checks or altering the function signature.

Affected

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

Remediation

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SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

8.6HIGHGitHub_M
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-122

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