CVE-2025-8746

Aug. 9, 2025, 6:15 a.m.

4.8
Medium

Description

A 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.

Product(s) Impacted

Vendor Product Versions
Gnu
  • Libopts
  • *

Weaknesses

Common security weaknesses mapped to this vulnerability.

CWE-119
Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer.

*CPE(s)

Affected systems and software identified for this CVE.

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language Software Edition Target Software Target Hardware Other Information
a gnu libopts / / / / / / / /

References

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yjKOHxvL_9xExy4QUb5x43dxci1x59ts/view?usp=sharing
https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/957
https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/957#issuecomment-3124774393
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.319242
https://vuldb.com/?id.319242
https://vuldb.com/?submit.623632
https://www.gnu.org/

Tags

CWE-119
cna@vuldb.com
2025-08-09
CVE-2025-8746

CVSS Score

4.8 / 10

CVSS Data - 4.0

  • Attack Vector: LOCAL
  • Attack Complexity: LOW
  • Attack Requirements: NONE
  • Privileges Required: LOW
  • User Interaction: NONE
  • Scope:
  • Confidentiality Impact: NONE
  • Integrity Impact: NONE
  • Availability Impact: LOW
  • Exploit Maturity: PROOF_OF_CONCEPT

    • CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

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Timeline

Published: Aug. 9, 2025, 6:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Aug. 9, 2025, 6:15 a.m.

Status : Received

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

cna@vuldb.com

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