[MEDIUM] Patch for iputils CVE-2025-47268

[aninda-al]

Merge Checklist

All boxes should be checked before merging the PR (just tick any boxes which don't apply to this PR)

• The toolchain has been rebuilt successfully (or no changes were made to it)
• The toolchain/worker package manifests are up-to-date
• Any updated packages successfully build (or no packages were changed)
• Packages depending on static components modified in this PR (Golang, *-static subpackages, etc.) have had their Release tag incremented.
• Package tests (%check section) have been verified with RUN_CHECK=y for existing SPEC files, or added to new SPEC files
• All package sources are available
• cgmanifest files are up-to-date and sorted (./cgmanifest.json, ./toolkit/scripts/toolchain/cgmanifest.json, .github/workflows/cgmanifest.json)
• LICENSE-MAP files are up-to-date (./LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/data/licenses.json, ./LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/LICENSES-MAP.md, ./LICENSES-AND-NOTICES/SPECS/LICENSE-EXCEPTIONS.PHOTON)
• All source files have up-to-date hashes in the *.signatures.json files
• sudo make go-tidy-all and sudo make go-test-coverage pass
• Documentation has been updated to match any changes to the build system
• Ready to merge

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Summary

Address CVE-2025-47268

Patch Modified: No
Astrolabe patch reference: iputils/iputils@b41e4a1

Change Log

• modified: SPECS/iputils/iputils.spec
• added: SPECS/iputils/CVE-2025-47268.patch

Does this affect the toolchain?

NO

Associated issues

• NA

Links to CVEs

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-47268

Test Methodology

• local build
• Patch applies cleanly, please refer the following log snippet
  

[realsdx]

BuddyBuild

[realsdx]

• Patch solves the issue
• Security tag exists
• Release bump & Changelog
• Buddy Build

[0xba1a]

• Patch solves the issue
• Security tag exists
• Release bump & Changelog
• Buddy Build

@realsdx Can you please elaborate how did you verify the patch solves the issue?
Also, please compare it with the upstream and mention whether its a clean patch or backported one. If backported, please justify the changes.

[realsdx]

@0xba1a CVE is for integer overflow vulnerability during RTT time calculations, patch explicitly checks it. It's clean patch, only the long git message and some whitespace removed.

[0xba1a]

@0xba1a CVE is for integer overflow vulnerability during RTT time calculations, patch explicitly checks it. It's clean patch, only the long git message and some whitespace removed.

Going ahead considering it as an implicit approval