Bug 2387367 (CVE-2025-8746) - CVE-2025-8746 libopts: Libopts Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Summary: CVE-2025-8746 libopts: Libopts Memory Corruption Vulnerability
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-8746
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2387603 2387605
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Reported: 2025-08-09 07:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-08-11 19:41 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-09 07:01:35 UTC
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.


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