CVE-2023-7256

ADVISORY - nist

Summary

In affected libpcap versions during the setup of a remote packet capture the internal function sock_initaddress() calls getaddrinfo() and possibly freeaddrinfo(), but does not clearly indicate to the caller function whether freeaddrinfo() still remains to be called after the function returns. This makes it possible in some scenarios that both the function and its caller call freeaddrinfo() for the same allocated memory block. A similar problem was reported in Apple libpcap, to which Apple assigned CVE-2023-40400.

EPSS Score: 0.00014 (0.020)

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

ADVISORY - nist

Double Free

ADVISORY - redhat

Double Free


NIST

CREATED

UPDATED

ADVISORY IDCVE-2023-7256
EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

0.8

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)

CVSS SCORE

4.4medium

Alpine

CREATED

UPDATED

ADVISORY IDCVE-2023-7256
EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
RATING UNAVAILABLE FROM ADVISORY

Debian

CREATED

UPDATED

ADVISORY IDCVE-2023-7256
EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-

CVSS SCORE

N/Alow

Ubuntu

CREATED

UPDATED

ADVISORY IDCVE-2023-7256
EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

0.8

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-

CVSS SCORE

4.4medium

Red Hat

CREATED

UPDATED

ADVISORY IDCVE-2023-7256
EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

0.8

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)

CVSS SCORE

4.4medium

Photon

CREATED

UPDATED

ADVISORY ID

CVE-2023-7256

EXPLOITABILITY SCORE

-

EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-

CVSS SCORE

4.4medium