CVE-2025-11961

OOBR and OOBW in pcap_ether_aton() in libpcap

State
Published
Severity
1.9 Low
Published
Dec 31, 2025
Updated
Jan 2, 2026
Reserved
Oct 20, 2025

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Description

pcap_ether_aton() is an auxiliary function in libpcap, it takes a string argument and returns a fixed-size allocated buffer. The string argument must be a well-formed MAC-48 address in one of the supported formats, but this requirement has been poorly documented. If an application calls the function with an argument that deviates from the expected format, the function can read data beyond the end of the provided string and write data beyond the end of the allocated buffer.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.11.9 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NTcpdump

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
libpcapThe Tcpdump Group
  • before 1.10.6Affected

References

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