CVE-2026-0799EPSS p1.1%
CVE-2026-0799CVE-2026-0799
Description
In BPF instructions that load/store a value from/to a scratch memory register the register index is an unsigned 32-bit integer and must not exceed 15, but libpcap BPF interpreter does not validate the value. In particular uncommon use cases a crafted filter program can cause the interpreter to try reading and writing the OS process memory in the 16GiB starting at the current stack frame on 64-bit architectures and in the entire address space on 32-bit architectures.
Scoring
| CVSS | 8.7 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.11% probability of exploitation · percentile 1.1% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-08 |