Siemens SCALANCE and RUGGEDCOM NULL Pointer Dereference (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...

SUSE-SU-2025:20059-1 Security update for libpcap

This update for libpcap fixes the following issues: - CVE-2024-8006: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in pcapfindalldevsex bsc1230034 - CVE-2023-7256: Fixed double free via addrinfo in sockinitaddress bsc1230020...

Security update for libpcap

This update for libpcap fixes the following issues: CVE-2024-8006: NULL pointer dereference in function pcapfindalldevsex. bsc1230034 CVE-2023-7256: double free via struct addrinfo in function sockinitaddress. bsc1230020 Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended...

SUSE-SU-2024:3516-1 Security update for libpcap

This update for libpcap fixes the following issues: - CVE-2024-8006: NULL pointer dereference in function pcapfindalldevsex. bsc1230034 - CVE-2023-7256: double free via struct addrinfo in function sockinitaddress. bsc1230020...

The vulnerability of the pcap_findalldevs_ex function in the libpcap library, which allows a hacker to cause a service failure

The vulnerability of the pcapfindalldevsex function in the libpcap library is related to the assignment of a null pointer. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

CVE-2024-8006

A flaw was found in the libpcap library. When remote packet capture support is enabled, it is possible to trigger a NULL pointer dereference when a filesystem path that is not a directory is used as an argument to the pcapfindalldevsex function due to a missing check of the return value from the...

NULL Pointer Dereference

libpcap is vulnerable to a NULL pointer dereference. The vulnerability is due to the pcapfindalldevsex function not checking the return value of opendir and passing a NULL value to readdir when an invalid filesystem path is provided...

AZL-48412 CVE-2024-8006 affecting package nmap for versions less than 7.95-2

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...