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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2025-8746 Detail

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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.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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CNA:  VulDB
CVSS-BT 4.8 MEDIUM
Vector:  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

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yjKOHxvL_9xExy4QUb5x43dxci1x59ts/view?usp=sharing VulDB
https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/957 CISA-ADP, VulDB
https://github.com/appneta/tcpreplay/issues/957#issuecomment-3124774393 VulDB
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.319242 VulDB
https://vuldb.com/?id.319242 VulDB
https://vuldb.com/?submit.623632 VulDB
https://www.gnu.org/ VulDB

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer VulDB  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2025-8746
NVD Published Date:
08/09/2025
NVD Last Modified:
08/11/2025
Source:
VulDB