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CVE-2026-6554

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.5 Published: 2026-09-05 Modified: 2026-09-08

Description

libpcap BPF interpreter treats the offset in the 'ja L' BPF instruction as a signed integer to implement looping via backward jumps, but it does not limit the number of loop iterations. In particular uncommon use cases a crafted filter program can cause the interpreter to loop infinitely.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-835

References