🛡️ UBUNTU-CVE-2023-7256
⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

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.

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-08-31
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
libpcap — —

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