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DEBIAN-CVE-2024-8006

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-8006 PUBLISHED CVSS 4.400000095367432 MEDIUM

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.

Risk Scores

CVSS 3.1
4.400000095367432
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:14libpcap0, 0
Debian:13libpcap0, 0
Debian:11libpcap1.10.4-5, 1.10.1-3, 1.10.1-4
Debian:12libpcap1.10.4-4, 1.10.4-4.1, 1.10.4-4.1~exp1

Exploit Intelligence

Timeline

  • Aug 31, 2024 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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