Bug 2481497 (CVE-2026-48685) - CVE-2026-48685 fastnetmon: out-of-bounds memory access due to incorrect parsing of BGP path attributes
Summary: CVE-2026-48685 fastnetmon: out-of-bounds memory access due to incorrect parsi...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-48685
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2482709 2482710
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Reported: 2026-05-26 16:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-10 13:42 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-26 16:01:39 UTC
FastNetMon Community Edition through 1.2.9 has out-of-bounds memory access because it incorrectly parses BGP path attributes with the extended length flag set. In src/bgp_protocol.hpp, the parse_raw_bgp_attribute() function correctly identifies when extended_length_bit is set and sets length_of_length_field to 2, but then reads only a single byte for the attribute value length (attribute_value_length = value[2] at line 173). Per RFC 4271 Section 4.3, when the Extended Length bit is set, the Attribute Length field is two octets and the value should be read as a 16-bit big-endian integer from value[2] and value[3]. As a result, any attribute longer than 255 bytes has its length silently truncated to the low byte (e.g., 300 bytes = 0x012C is read as 0x2C = 44 bytes). The remaining 256 bytes are then misinterpreted as subsequent attributes, causing cascading parse failures and potential out-of-bounds memory access.


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