CVE-2025-11964 (GCVE-0-2025-11964)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-31 00:58 – Updated: 2025-12-31 00:58
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Title
OOBW in utf_16le_to_utf_8_truncated() in libpcap
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.
CWE
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
The Tcpdump Group libpcap Affected: 1.10.0 , < 1.10.6 (semver)
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Credits
Aniruddhan Murali Noble Saji Mathews Mahmoud Alfadel Mei Nagappan Meng Xu
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