CVE-2023-7256: Double Free

In affected libpcap versions during the setup of a remote packet capture the internal function sockinitaddress calls getaddrinfo and possibly freeaddrinfo, but does not clearly indicate to the caller function whether freeaddrinfo still remains to be called after the function returns. This makes i...

CVE-2024-8006

Remote packet capture support is disabled by default in libpcap. When a user builds libpcap with remote packet capture support enabled, one of the functions that become available is pcapfindalldevsex. One of the function arguments can be a filesystem path, which normally means a directory with...

CVE-2024-8006

Remote packet capture support is disabled by default in libpcap. When a user builds libpcap with remote packet capture support enabled, one of the functions that become available is pcapfindalldevsex. One of the function arguments can be a filesystem path, which normally means a directory with...

CVE-2024-8006

Remote packet capture support is disabled by default in libpcap. When a user builds libpcap with remote packet capture support enabled, one of the functions that become available is pcapfindalldevsex. One of the function arguments can be a filesystem path, which normally means a directory with...

CVE-2024-8006 NULL pointer dereference in libpcap before 1.10.5 with remote packet capture support

Remote packet capture support is disabled by default in libpcap. When a user builds libpcap with remote packet capture support enabled, one of the functions that become available is pcapfindalldevsex. One of the function arguments can be a filesystem path, which normally means a directory with...

CVE-2024-8006

CVE-2024-8006 affects libpcap when built with remote packet capture support enabled. The vulnerability arises in pcap_findalldevs_ex() where a NULL is passed to readdir() after opendir() returns NULL (directory-usage path), causing a NULL pointer dereference and an availability impact. No explici...

CVE-2024-8006 NULL pointer dereference in libpcap before 1.10.5 with remote packet capture support

Remote packet capture support is disabled by default in libpcap. When a user builds libpcap with remote packet capture support enabled, one of the functions that become available is pcapfindalldevsex. One of the function arguments can be a filesystem path, which normally means a directory with...

CVE-2024-8006 NULL pointer dereference in libpcap before 1.10.5 with remote packet capture support

Remote packet capture support is disabled by default in libpcap. When a user builds libpcap with remote packet capture support enabled, one of the functions that become available is pcapfindalldevsex. One of the function arguments can be a filesystem path, which normally means a directory with...

CVE-2023-7256

In affected libpcap versions during the setup of a remote packet capture the internal function sockinitaddress calls getaddrinfo and possibly freeaddrinfo, but does not clearly indicate to the caller function whether freeaddrinfo still remains to be called after the function returns. This makes i...

CVE-2023-7256

CVE-2023-7256 – libpcap is affected by a double-free in the remote packet capture setup path. The root cause is that sock_initaddress() calls getaddrinfo() and may call freeaddrinfo(), but does not clearly communicate to the caller whether freeaddrinfo() still needs to be called after return. Thi...

CVE-2023-7256

In affected libpcap versions during the setup of a remote packet capture the internal function sockinitaddress calls getaddrinfo and possibly freeaddrinfo, but does not clearly indicate to the caller function whether freeaddrinfo still remains to be called after the function returns. This makes i...

CVE-2023-7256 Double-free in libpcap before 1.10.5 with remote packet capture support.

In affected libpcap versions during the setup of a remote packet capture the internal function sockinitaddress calls getaddrinfo and possibly freeaddrinfo, but does not clearly indicate to the caller function whether freeaddrinfo still remains to be called after the function returns. This makes i...

CVE-2023-7256

In affected libpcap versions during the setup of a remote packet capture the internal function sockinitaddress calls getaddrinfo and possibly freeaddrinfo, but does not clearly indicate to the caller function whether freeaddrinfo still remains to be called after the function returns. This makes i...

CVE-2023-7256 Double-free in libpcap before 1.10.5 with remote packet capture support.

In affected libpcap versions during the setup of a remote packet capture the internal function sockinitaddress calls getaddrinfo and possibly freeaddrinfo, but does not clearly indicate to the caller function whether freeaddrinfo still remains to be called after the function returns. This makes i...

CVE-2023-7256 Double-free in libpcap before 1.10.5 with remote packet capture support.

In affected libpcap versions during the setup of a remote packet capture the internal function sockinitaddress calls getaddrinfo and possibly freeaddrinfo, but does not clearly indicate to the caller function whether freeaddrinfo still remains to be called after the function returns. This makes i...

PT-2024-6379

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libpcap versions affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to the function freeaddrinfo in the libpcap library, where it is called for the same allocated memory block, potentially leading to a denial of service. During t...

PT-2024-6095

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libpcap affected versions not specified Description The issue is related to a null pointer dereference in the pcap findalldevs ex function of the libpcap library. This function becomes available when a user builds libpcap with remote packet...

libpcap resource management error vulnerability

libpcap is a portable C/C ++ library for network traffic capture from the Tcpdump team. A resource management error vulnerability exists in libpcap, which stems from an unclear logic in the sockinitaddress function's calls to getaddrinfo and freeaddrinfo, which could result in the same block of...

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10969-1 libpcap-devel-1.10.1-1.2 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the libpcap-devel-1.10.1-1.2 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed...

RHEL 7 : libpcap (Unpatched Vulnerability)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched. - libpcap: Resource exhaustion during PHB header length validation CVE-2019-15165 Note that Nessus has not tested for...