CVE-2024-8006

A flaw was found in the libpcap library. When remote packet capture support is enabled, it is possible to trigger a NULL pointer dereference when a filesystem path that is not a directory is used as an argument to the pcap_findalldevs_ex function due to a missing check of the return value from the opendir function, resulting in a denial of service.

The libpcap library as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, 9 and in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 is not affected by this vulnerability because the remote packet capture support is disabled.

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