CVEvulnerability

CVE-2024-8006

4.4 MEDIUM Published 2024-08-31 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2024-08-31
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

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 pcap_findalldevs_ex(). One of the function arguments can be a filesystem path, which normally means a directory with input data files. When the specified path cannot be used as a directory, the function receives NULL from opendir(), but does not check the return value and passes the NULL value to readdir(), which causes a NULL pointer derefence.

Affected configurations

• tcpdump libpcap (< 1.10.5)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References