CVE-2025-11964

NameCVE-2025-11964
DescriptionOn 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
libpcap (PTS)bullseye1.10.0-2fixed
bookworm1.10.3-1fixed
forky, sid, trixie1.10.5-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
libpcapsource(unstable)(not affected)

Notes

- libpcap <not-affected> (Only affects libpcap on Windows)
Fixed by: https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/commit/7fabf607f2319a36a0bd78444247180acb838e69 (libpcap-1.10.6)

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