CVE-2025-8746

Public on 2025-08-09
Modified on 2025-08-15
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.
Severity
Low severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
3.3
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 autogen No Fix Planned
Amazon Linux 2 - Core autogen Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2 - Core sharutils Pending Fix
Amazon Linux 2023 sharutils Not Affected

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 3.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 1.7 AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H