High severity · published Sep 5, 2026
CVE-2026-0799
OOBR and OOBW in libpcap before 1.10.7
8.7
CVSS
0.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In BPF instructions that load/store a value from/to a scratch memory register the register index is an unsigned 32-bit integer and must not exceed 15, but libpcap BPF interpreter does not validate the value. In particular uncommon use cases a crafted filter program can cause the interpreter to try reading and writing the OS process memory in the 16GiB starting at the current stack frame on 64-bit architectures and in the entire address space on 32-bit architectures.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.1% · higher than 1% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
LI
libpcap · The Tcpdump Group
before 1.10.7 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-0799
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0799
github.com
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/48e8960a7108e9e828f9d7bdc7e97bdab841aec7
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