Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 5, 2026

CVE-2026-6244

Description

libpcap BPF interpreter for the 'div #k' and 'mod #k' ALU instructions does not check whether the immediate value is zero. In particular uncommon use cases a crafted filter program can cause a division by zero.

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Affected products

Tcpdump/Libpcapllm-create

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/98bb921b141aa642faedbf2ac510541c76499a19nvd

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