Double Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libcap (opens in a new tab)
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- published3 Sept 2024
- disclosed31 Aug 2024
Introduced: 31 Aug 2024
CVE-2023-7256 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcap package and not the libcap package as distributed by RHEL.
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.