libpcap security update
This is the official web site of tcpdump, a powerful command-line packet analyzer; and libpcap, a portable C/C++ library for network traffic capture. Security Fix(es): In BPF instructions that load/store a value from/to a scratch memory register the register index is an unsigned 32-bit integer and must not exceed 15, but libpcap BPF interpreter does not validate the value. In particular uncommon use cases a crafted filter program can cause the interpreter to try reading and writing the OS process memory in the 16GiB starting at the current stack frame on 64-bit architectures and in the entire address space on 32-bit architectures.(CVE-2026-0799) The rpcap client code that processes a RPCAP_MSG_PACKET message received from the server incorrectly validates its headers. A malicious server can send a crafted message and cause the client to treat up to 20 bytes of the client process memory beyond the end of the buffer as if it was a part of the captured packet.(CVE-2026-18238) rpcapd can allocate up to 65536 bytes per each RPCAP_MSG_UPDATEFILTER_REQ or RPCAP_MSG_STARTCAP_REQ message received from the client, but it never frees the memory, so it leaks memory even under normal use. A malicious client can cause the server to leak memory substantially faster.(CVE-2026-18313) libpcap BPF interpreter calls abort() if it encounters a BPF instruction that has an invalid opcode. In particular uncommon use cases a crafted filter program can terminate the OS process.(CVE-2026-31911) libpcap
OESA-2026-4100
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: osv:OESA-2026-4100
libpcap
Source reference: /affected/0/package/name
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- 1.10.4-6.oe2403sp4
Source reference:
/affected/0/ranges - Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
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{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "ECOSYSTEM",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "1.10.4-6.oe2403sp4"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "libpcap",
"purl": "pkg:rpm/openEuler/libpcap&distro=openEuler-24.03-LTS-SP4",
"ecosystem": "openEuler:24.03-LTS-SP4"
},
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://repo.openeuler.org/security/data/osv/OESA-2026-4100.json"
},
"ecosystem_specific": {
"src": [
"libpcap-1.10.4-6.oe2403sp4.src.rpm"
],
"noarch": [
"libpcap-help-1.10.4-6.oe2403sp4.noarch.rpm"
],
"x86_64": [
"libpcap-1.10.4-6.oe2403sp4.x86_64.rpm",
"libpcap-debuginfo-1.10.4-6.oe2403sp4.x86_64.rpm",
"libpcap-debugsource-1.10.4-6.oe2403sp4.x86_64.rpm",
"libpcap-devel-1.10.4-6.oe2403sp4.x86_64.rpm"
],
"aarch64": [
"libpcap-1.10.4-6.oe2403sp4.aarch64.rpm",
"libpcap-debuginfo-1.10.4-6.oe2403sp4.aarch64.rpm",
"libpcap-debugsource-1.10.4-6.oe2403sp4.aarch64.rpm",
"libpcap-devel-1.10.4-6.oe2403sp4.aarch64.rpm"
]
}
}
]Publisher severity
high
Source reference: /database_specific/severity
- Event
- #14709 · Revision 1
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