High severity · published Jan 29, 2026
CVE-2026-25061
tcpflow is a TCP/IP packet demultiplexer
7.5
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
tcpflow is a TCP/IP packet demultiplexer. In versions up to and including 1.61, wifipcap parses 802.11 management frame elements and performs a length check on the wrong field when handling the TIM element. A crafted frame with a large TIM length can cause a 1-byte out-of-bounds write past `tim.bitmap[251]`. The overflow is small and DoS is the likely impact; code execution is potential, but still up in the air. The affected structure is stack-allocated in `handle_beacon()` and related handlers. As of time of publication, no known patches are available.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 47% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
11.0 · source: NVD
TC
Tcpflow · Digitalcorpora
through 1.6.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-25061
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-25061
Exploit
https://github.com/simsong/tcpflow/security/advisories/GHSA-q5q6-frrv-9rj6
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/02/msg00014.html
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