CVE-2024-8006 - Cisco libpcap NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerability

CVE ID : CVE-2024-8006
Published : Aug. 31, 2024, 12:15 a.m. | 1 day, 20 hours ago
Description : 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.
Severity: 4.4 | MEDIUM
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