The vulnerability of the ping function in the iputils utility, which allows a hacker to cause a service failure

The vulnerability of the ping function in the iputils utility is related to integer overflow. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to cause a service failure using a specially created ICMP Echo Reply packet...

CVE-2025-48964

ping in iputils before 20250602 allows a denial of service application error in adaptive ping mode or incorrect data collection via a crafted ICMP Echo Reply packet, because a zero timestamp can lead to large intermediate values that have an integer overflow when squared during statistics...