CVE-2025-11964 (GCVE-0-2025-11964)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-31 00:58
Modified
2026-01-02 14:38
Severity ?
1.9 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
Summary
On Windows only, if libpcap needs to convert a Windows error message to UTF-8 and the message includes characters that UTF-8 represents using 4 bytes, utf_16le_to_utf_8_truncated() can write data beyond the end of the provided buffer.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
The Tcpdump Group libpcap Version: 1.10.0   ≤
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