CVE-2024-8006

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8006
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-8006.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-8006
Downstream
Related
Published
2024-08-30T23:53:11.334Z
Modified
2026-07-11T04:15:56.747871259Z
Severity
  • 4.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
NULL pointer dereference in libpcap before 1.10.5 with remote packet capture support
Details

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 pcapfindalldevsex(). 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.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "Tcpdump",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-476"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/8xxx/CVE-2024-8006.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
bbcbc9174df3298a854daee2b3e666a4b6e5383a
Fixed
0f8a103469ce87d2b8d68c5130a46ddb7fb5eb29
Fixed
8a633ee5b9ecd9d38a587ac9b204e2380713b0d6
Database specific 
{
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:tcpdump:libpcap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.10.5"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.9.x
libpcap-0.*
libpcap-0.6.1
libpcap-0.7.1
libpcap-0.8-bp
libpcap-1.*
libpcap-1.10-bp
libpcap-1.10.0
libpcap-1.10.1
libpcap-1.10.2
libpcap-1.10.3
libpcap-1.10.4
libpcap-1.7.0-bp
libpcap-1.8.0-bp
libpcap-1.8.1
libpcap-1.9-bp
libpcap-1.9.0-rc1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-8006.json"