CVE-2023-7256

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.

The following products are affected by CVE-2023-7256 vulnerability.

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2023-7256.

URL	Resource
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/262e4f34979872d822ccedf9f318ed89c4d31c03
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/2aa69b04d8173b18a0e3492e0c8f2f7fabdf642d
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-7256
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-7256