CVE-2025-11964 (GCVE-0-2025-11964)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-31 00:58 – Updated: 2025-12-31 00:58
VLAI?
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.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write
Assigner
References
| URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Tcpdump Group | libpcap |
Affected:
1.10.0 , < 1.10.6
(semver)
|
Credits
Aniruddhan Murali
Noble Saji Mathews
Mahmoud Alfadel
Mei Nagappan
Meng Xu
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