A security notice published on September 25, 2026 reports that libpcap may fail to validate certain BPF instructions, potentially enabling out-of-bounds memory operations.
Notice USN-8824-1, published on September 25, 2026, says libpcap does not correctly validate BPF instructions in some situations. According to the text, an attacker could possibly exploit the issue to perform out-of-bounds memory operations. This summary of the notice does not specify affected versions or remediation steps.
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