CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-48682

MediumCVSS 5.9
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.27%

19th percentile - higher than 19% of all known CVEs

Summary

FastNetMon Community Edition through 1.2.9 has an out-of-bounds read in the IPv4 packet parser. After validating at least 20 bytes, the code advances the pointer by 4 * IHL without checking IHL >= 5 or available bytes. IHL=15 with only 20 bytes causes a 40-byte over-read; IHL 0-4 leads to type confusion.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can crash FastNetMon or leak sensitive process memory, threatening network monitoring stability and data confidentiality.

Recommendation

Update FastNetMon to version 1.2.10 or later, which includes a fix for IHL validation.

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Original NVD description (English source)

FastNetMon Community Edition through 1.2.9 contains an out-of-bounds read in the IPv4 packet parser. In src/simple_packet_parser_ng.cpp, after validating that the packet contains at least sizeof(ipv4_header_t) bytes (20 bytes), the code advances the local_pointer by '4 * ipv4_header->get_ihl()' (line 164) without validating that (a) IHL >= 5 (the minimum valid value per RFC 791), or (b) 4 * IHL bytes are actually available in the packet. The IHL field is 4 bits, allowing values 0-15, so the advance can be 0-60 bytes. An IHL value of 15 with only 20 bytes validated causes a 40-byte over-read. An IHL of 0-4 causes the pointer to not advance past the IP header, resulting in the TCP/UDP header being parsed from IP header data (type confusion). This vulnerability is reachable via any packet capture interface.

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