CVE-2023-7256: medium-severity vulnerability in The Tcpdump Group libpcap
Double-free in libpcap before 1.10.5 with remote packet capture support.
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 4.4epss 0.2%
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
The Tcpdump Group · libpcapRelated CVEs — The Tcpdump Group libpcap
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-6554HIGHinfinte loop in libpcap before 1.10.7EPSS 0.4%CVE-2024-8006MEDIUMNULL pointer dereference in libpcap before 1.10.5 with remote packet capture supportEPSS 0.2%CVE-2026-18313MEDIUMrpcapd memory leak in libpcap before 1.10.7EPSS 0.2%CVE-2026-18238MEDIUMOOBR in rpcap client in libpcap before 1.10.7EPSS 0.2%CVE-2026-6244MEDIUMdivision by zero in libpcap before 1.10.7EPSS 0.1%CVE-2025-11964LOWOOBW in utf_16le_to_utf_8_truncated() in libpcapEPSS 0.1%