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CVE-2026-6244 (GCVE-0-2026-6244)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-05 18:50 – Updated: 2026-09-17 07:35
VLAI
Title
division by zero in libpcap before 1.10.7
Summary
libpcap BPF interpreter for the 'div #k' and 'mod #k' ALU instructions does not check whether the immediate value is zero. In particular uncommon use cases a crafted filter program can cause a division by zero.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-08 15:13 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
The Tcpdump Group libpcap Affected: 0 , < 1.10.7 (semver)
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Credits
Aniruddhan Murali Noble Saji Mathews Denis Ovsienko
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