OESA-2026-1110 libpcap security update

This is the official web site of tcpdump, a powerful command-line packet analyzer; and libpcap, a portable C/C++ library for network traffic capture. Security Fixes: pcapetheraton is an auxiliary function in libpcap, it takes a string argument and returns a fixed-size allocated buffer. The string...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-11964

On Windows only, if libpcap needs to convert a Windows error message to UTF-8 and the message includes characters that UTF-8 represents using 4 bytes, utf16letoutf8truncated can write data beyond the end of the provided buffer...

ROS-20240910-04

A vulnerability in the pcapfindalldevsex function of the libpcap library is related to the default support for remote packet capture. remote packet capture. Exploitation of the vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial of denial of service...

MESSAGETAP: Who’s Reading Your Text Messages?

FireEye Mandiant recently discovered a new malware family used by APT41 a Chinese APT group that is designed to monitor and save SMS traffic from specific phone numbers, IMSI numbers and keywords for subsequent theft. Named MESSAGETAP, the tool was deployed by APT41 in a telecommunications networ...

PFQ - Functional Network Framework For Multi-Core Architectures

PFQ is a functional framework designed for the Linux operating system built for efficient packets capture/transmission 10G, 40G and beyond, in-kernel functional processing, kernel-bypass and packets steering across groups of sockets/end-points. It is highly optimized for multi-core architecture, ...