PT-2026-86442 · Tcpdump+2 · Libpcap

CVE-2026-18313

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Published

2026-09-05

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Updated

2026-09-10

CVSS v3.1

4.3

Medium

VectorAV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
rpcapd can allocate up to 65536 bytes per each RPCAP MSG UPDATEFILTER REQ or RPCAP MSG STARTCAP REQ message received from the client, but it never frees the memory, so it leaks memory even under normal use. A malicious client can cause the server to leak memory substantially faster.

Exploit

Fix

Memory Leak

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Weakness Enumeration

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-18313
OPENSUSE-SU-2026:11744-1

Affected Products

Libpcap