CVE-2025-12899

net: icmp: Out of bound memory read

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Jan 30, 2026
Updated
Oct 13, 2026
Reserved
Nov 7, 2025

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Description

A flaw in Zephyr’s network stack allows an IPv4 packet containing ICMP type 128 to be misclassified as an ICMPv6 Echo Request. This results in an out-of-bounds memory read and creates a potential information-leak vulnerability in the networking subsystem.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Lzephyr

Weaknesses

  • CWE-843 Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Zephyrzephyrproject-rtos
  • before 3.7.2Affected
  • 4.0.0 to before 4.2.2Affected

References

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