CVE-2023-7256

MEDIUM

Tcpdump Libpcap < 1.10.5 - Double Free

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

In affected libpcap versions during the setup of a remote packet capture the internal function sock_initaddress() calls getaddrinfo() and possibly freeaddrinfo(), but does not clearly indicate to the caller function whether freeaddrinfo() still remains to be called after the function returns. This makes it possible in some scenarios that both the function and its caller call freeaddrinfo() for the same allocated memory block. A similar problem was reported in Apple libpcap, to which Apple assigned CVE-2023-40400.

Scores

CVSS v3 4.4
EPSS 0.0001
EPSS Percentile 2.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-415
Status published
Products (1)
tcpdump/libpcap < 1.10.5
Published Aug 31, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026