Bug 2481495 (CVE-2026-48686) - CVE-2026-48686 fastnetmon: stack-based buffer overflow in the BGP NLRI decoder
Summary: CVE-2026-48686 fastnetmon: stack-based buffer overflow in the BGP NLRI decoder
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-48686
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2482707 2482708
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Reported: 2026-05-26 16:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-05-28 15:40 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-26 16:01:31 UTC
FastNetMon Community Edition through 1.2.9 contains a stack-based buffer overflow in the BGP NLRI (Network Layer Reachability Information) decoder. The function decode_bgp_subnet_encoding_ipv4_raw() in src/bgp_protocol.cpp reads prefix_bit_length directly from the BGP packet (line 99) without validating it is <= 32 for IPv4 prefixes. This value is passed to how_much_bytes_we_need_for_storing_certain_subnet_mask() which computes ceil(prefix_bit_length / 8), returning up to 32 bytes for a prefix_bit_length of 255. The result is used as the length argument to memcpy() (line 106), which copies into a 4-byte uint32_t stack variable (prefix_ipv4). This causes a stack buffer overflow of up to 28 bytes, which can be exploited for arbitrary code execution. Additionally, the unvalidated prefix_bit_length is passed to convert_cidr_to_binary_netmask_local_function_copy() (line 111), where a shift of (32 - cidr) with cidr > 32 causes undefined behavior.


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