CVE-2026-18238

Updated on 05 Sep 2026

Severity

5.0 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.0
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Overview

About vulnerability

The rpcap client code that processes a RPCAP_MSG_PACKET message received from the server incorrectly validates its headers. A malicious server can send a crafted message and cause the client to treat up to 20 bytes of the client process memory beyond the end of the buffer as if it was a part of the captured packet.

Details

Affected packages:
libpcap @ 1.5.3 (+6 more)

Fixes