vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2024-8006: libpcap: NULL pointer derefence in pcap_findalldevs_ex() in pcap-new.c

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 31, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

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.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
NEW

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