CVE-2024-8006CWE-476

NULL pointer dereference in libpcap before 1.10.5 with remote packet capture support

Medium · published August 30, 2024

CVSS v3.1
4.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00244 · 14.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2024-08-30T23:53Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 AUG 23:53Z
    NULL pointer dereference in libpcap before 1.10.5 with remote packet capture support
    cvelistv5