High severity8.7NVD Advisory· Published Sep 5, 2026· Updated Sep 8, 2026
CVE-2026-0799
CVE-2026-0799
Description
In BPF instructions that load/store a value from/to a scratch memory register the register index is an unsigned 32-bit integer and must not exceed 15, but libpcap BPF interpreter does not validate the value. In particular uncommon use cases a crafted filter program can cause the interpreter to try reading and writing the OS process memory in the 16GiB starting at the current stack frame on 64-bit architectures and in the entire address space on 32-bit architectures.
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Affected products
5- osv-coords4 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/libpcap&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/almalinux/libpcap-develpkg:rpm/almalinux/libpcappkg:rpm/opensuse/libpcap&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 1.10.5-160000.5.1+ 3 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.5-160000.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 14:1.10.0-4.el9_8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 14:1.10.0-4.el9_8.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.10.7-1.1
Patches
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