RHSA-2026:76045 — Security Advisory

An update for libpcap is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

The libpcap packages provide a portable framework for low-level network monitoring. The libpcap library provides network statistics collection, security monitoring, and network debugging.

Security Fix(es):

• libpcap: libpcap: Out-of-bounds read and write vulnerability allows arbitrary memory access (CVE-2026-0799)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.