CVE-2024-8006 — NULL pointer dereference in libpcap before 1.10.5 with remote packet capture support
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 availab…
Published: 2024-08-30 · CVSS: 4.4 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7