CVE-2024-8006

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.

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-8006 vulnerability.

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2024-8006.

URL	Resource
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/0f8a103469ce87d2b8d68c5130a46ddb7fb5eb29
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/8a633ee5b9ecd9d38a587ac9b204e2380713b0d6
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-8006
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-8006