CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-11961

1.9 LOW Published 2025-12-31 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Deferred
Published
2025-12-31
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
1.9 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-122, CWE-126

Description

pcap_ether_aton() is an auxiliary function in libpcap, it takes a string argument and returns a fixed-size allocated buffer. The string argument must be a well-formed MAC-48 address in one of the supported formats, but this requirement has been poorly documented. If an application calls the function with an argument that deviates from the expected format, the function can read data beyond the end of the provided string and write data beyond the end of the allocated buffer.

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow weakness
  • CWE-126 Buffer Over-read weakness

References