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CVE-2024-8006

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.

  • Published: Aug 31, 2024
  • Updated: May 4, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2024-8006
  • Severity: Low
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4.4
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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