suse-su-2025:20059-1
Vulnerability from csaf_suse
Published
2025-02-03 08:57
Modified
2025-02-03 08:57
Summary
Security update for libpcap

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for libpcap
Description of the patch
This update for libpcap fixes the following issues: - CVE-2024-8006: Fixed NULL pointer dereference in pcap_findalldevs_ex() (bsc#1230034) - CVE-2023-7256: Fixed double free via addrinfo in sock_initaddress() (bsc#1230020)
Patchnames
SUSE-SLE-Micro-6.0-50
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).


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