Security Advisory
CVE-2026-31912
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
libpcap BPF interpreter detects neither reaching the end of the filter program buffer due to lack of a return instruction nor executing a jump instruction with an offset that translates to a pointer outside of the buffer. In particular uncommon use cases a crafted filter program can cause the interpreter to try reading the OS process memory in the 32GiB around the buffer on 64-bit architectures and in the entire address space on 32-bit architectures.
Published Date
September 5, 2026
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory