Double Free Affecting libpcap package, versions [,1.10.5)
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (11th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBPCAP-7856127
- published 1 Sep 2024
- disclosed 31 Aug 2024
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 31 Aug 2024
CVE-2023-7256 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade libpcap to version 1.10.5 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Double Free in the sock_initaddress() function, which calls getaddrinfo() and freeaddrinfo(), but does not clearly indicate to the caller function whether freeaddrinfo() still needs to be called after the function returns.