Source: libpcap Version: 1.10.5-2 Severity: important Tags: security upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Debian Security Team <[email protected]>
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for libpcap. CVE-2025-11961[0]: | pcap_ether_aton() is an auxiliary function in libpcap, it takes a | string argument and returns a fixed-size allocated buffer. The | string argument must be a well-formed MAC-48 address in one of the | supported formats, but this requirement has been poorly documented. | If an application calls the function with an argument that deviates | from the expected format, the function can read data beyond the end | of the provided string and write data beyond the end of the | allocated buffer. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-11961 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-11961 [1] https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/b2d2f9a9a0581c40780bde509f7cc715920f1c02 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
