CVE-2026-6554 affecting package libpcap for versions less than 1.10.7-1

CVE-2026-6554 affecting package libpcap for versions less than 1.10.7-1. A patched version of the package is available...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-6554

libpcap BPF interpreter treats the offset in the 'ja L' BPF instruction as a signed integer to implement looping via backward jumps, but it does not limit the number of loop iterations. In particular uncommon use cases a crafted filter program can cause the interpreter to loop infinitely...