CVE-2025-11964 (GCVE-0-2025-11964)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-31 00:58
Modified
2025-12-31 00:58
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Tcpdump Group | libpcap |
Version: 1.10.0 ≤ |
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Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date |
|---|
Nomenclature
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