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Google: net-libs/libpcap: security update to 17800.309.46

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 452707

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Remote packet capture support is disabled by default in libpcap. When a user builds libpcap with remote
 packet capture support enabled, one of the functions that become available is pcap_findalldevs_ex(). One
 of the function arguments can be a filesystem path, which normally means a directory with input data
 files. When the specified path cannot be used as a directory, the function receives NULL from opendir(),
 but does not check the return value and passes the NULL value to readdir(), which causes a NULL pointer
 derefence. (CVE-2024-8006)

Solution

Update the net-libs/libpcap library and its related packages to version 17800.309.46 or later.

See Also

https://storage.googleapis.com/cos-oval-vulnerability-feed/cos-109.oval.xml.tar.gz

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 452707

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.51

Vendor

Vendor Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-8006

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.4

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/30/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-8006