High
Security advisory
iptraf-ng 1.2.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow. In src/ifaces.c, the strcpy function consistently fails to control the size, and it is consequently possible to overflow memory on the stack.
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2024-52949
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 6 Nov 2026, 19:22 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
iptraf-ng 1.2.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow. In src/ifaces.c, the strcpy function consistently fails to control the size, and it is consequently possible to overflow memory on the stack.
osv:CVE-2024-52949
Complete source record
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