CVE-2025-11964 (GCVE-0-2025-11964)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-31 00:58 – Updated: 2026-01-02 14:38
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-01-02 14:23 UTC
CWE
- CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/comm… | patch |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Tcpdump Group | libpcap |
Affected:
1.10.0 , < 1.10.6
(semver)
|
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