libpcap BPF interpreter detects neither reaching the end of the filter program buffer due to lack of a return instruction nor executing a jump instruction with an offset that translates to a pointer outside of the buffer. In particular uncommon use cases a crafted filter program can cause the interpreter to try reading the OS process memory in the 32GiB around the buffer on 64-bit architectures and in the entire address space on 32-bit architectures.
History

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Description libpcap BPF interpreter detects neither reaching the end of the filter program buffer due to lack of a return instruction nor executing a jump instruction with an offset that translates to a pointer outside of the buffer. In particular uncommon use cases a crafted filter program can cause the interpreter to try reading the OS process memory in the 32GiB around the buffer on 64-bit architectures and in the entire address space on 32-bit architectures.
Title OOBR in libpcap before 1.10.7
Weaknesses CWE-125
CWE-1285
CWE-823
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Tcpdump

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-05T18:49:41.619Z

Reserved: 2026-03-10T09:30:50.972Z

Link: CVE-2026-31912

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-05T19:16:55.823

Modified: 2026-09-05T19:16:55.823

Link: CVE-2026-31912

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Updated: 2026-09-05T21:00:05Z