CVE-2024-8006 (GCVE-0-2024-8006)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-08-30 23:53 – Updated: 2024-09-03 19:17
VLAI
Title
NULL pointer dereference in libpcap before 1.10.5 with remote packet capture support
Summary
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.
Severity
4.4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-03 19:17 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
The Tcpdump Group libpcap Affected: 1.9.x
Affected: 1.10.x , ≤ 1.10.4 (semver)
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Credits
Flavio Toffalini Nicolas Badoux
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