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.

The version of iptraf-ng installed on the remote host is prior to 1.1.4-7. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-2810 advisory.

    iptraf-ng 1.2.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow. (CVE-2024-52949)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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. (CVE-2024-52949)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

According to the versions of the iptraf-ng package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

    VUL-0: CVE-2024-52949: iptraf-ng: limit interface name lengths to IFNAMSIZ(CVE-2024-52949)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS iptraf-ng security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the iptraf-ng package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

    iptraf-ng 1.2.1 has a stack-based buffer overflow.(CVE-2024-52949)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS iptraf-ng security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of iptraf-ng installed on the remote Azure Linux 3.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2024-52949 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. (CVE-2024-52949)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of iptraf-ng installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2024-52949 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. (CVE-2024-52949)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
233721	Amazon Linux 2 : iptraf-ng (ALAS-2025-2810)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	critical
231297	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-52949	Nessus	Misc.	critical
216019	EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : iptraf-ng (EulerOS-SA-2025-1175)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
215997	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : iptraf-ng (EulerOS-SA-2025-1139)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
215991	EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : iptraf-ng (EulerOS-SA-2025-1191)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
215985	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : iptraf-ng (EulerOS-SA-2025-1158)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
215511	Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: iptraf-ng (CVE-2024-52949)	Nessus	Azure Linux Local Security Checks	high
213408	CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: iptraf-ng (CVE-2024-52949)	Nessus	MarinerOS Local Security Checks	high

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